Blistering Dieflyn
Creature — Imp
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30620
Blistering Dieflyn is a 1/1 flier for one mana that deals 1 damage to each opponent when it dies — cheap, disposable, and genuinely useful in sacrifice loops. The cost is that the payoff is trivial outside of those loops, making it a narrow role-player rather than a generalist.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blistering Dieflyn earns a slot in aristocrats and sacrifice builds that want cheap, repeatable death triggers — one mana for a flying body that pings the table on exit is efficient at that price point. In Pauper, it competes in a tight field of one-drop sacrifice fodder, and the flying clause gives it a marginal edge over ground-only equivalents. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the effect is too small to register in formats defined by turn-one kills and broken mana. Blistering Dieflyn is a Commander and Pauper card, full stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Blistering Dieflyn is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It won't appreciate, but it doesn't need to: if it fits your sacrifice shell, the acquisition cost is irrelevant.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.