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Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Cat

Whenever you cast a Phyrexian creature or artifact creature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
At the beginning of each end step, if a Phyrexian died under your control this turn, proliferate.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
mythic
Set
March of the Machine Commander
Price
$0.53
EDHREC rank
#7206
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Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos card art
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos floods the board with Phyrexian tokens and proliferates on every attack — the engine is real, and it pairs with Ancestral Statue to generate tokens at scale or slots cleanly into Vishgraz, the Doomhive's poison-and-proliferate gameplan. The cost is a five-mana legendary that does nothing the turn it enters, so it folds to any answer before combat.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Vishgraz, the Doomhive

Vishgraz, the Doomhive

22.3% of decks · synergy 0.21

Vishgraz, the Doomhive already wants Phyrexian tokens and poison counters on every opponent, and Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos delivers both — the attack trigger stacks with Vishgraz's own token production to snowball poison counts fast.

02
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

20.9% of decks · synergy 0.20

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa proliferates on attack and wants creatures that keep pressure up between swings; Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos supplies a steady token stream that makes every combat step meaningful while the poison count climbs.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos actually lives — the multiplayer environment gives the attack trigger three targets simultaneously, and proliferate synergies in Esper, Golgari, or Phyrexian-tribal builds give it a natural home. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees no play; a five-mana creature with no immediate impact is too slow for those formats when you're competing against turn-one and turn-two kills. Commander is the one format where the sustained value engine matters more than the entry cost.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.53 bulk tier

At $0.53, Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos is bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of or just to slot into a Commander build without thinking about it. Bulk rares with genuine combo and synergy upside can tick up if a supported archetype spikes in popularity, but at this price it's just a free include, not a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.