Capricious Hellraiser
Creature — Phyrexian Dragon
This spell costs 
less to cast if you have nine or more cards in your graveyard.
Flying
When this creature enters, exile three cards at random from your graveyard. Choose a noncreature, nonland card from among them and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14229
Capricious Hellraiser lands as a 4/4 flying trampler with haste and immediately casts a free spell from any graveyard — the enters-the-battlefield trigger alone justifies the six-mana price tag. The randomness ceiling is real, but in a graveyard-stocked game, the floor is still a hasty evasive threat that replaced itself with value.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Capricious Hellraiser earns its keep — graveyards fill fast in multiplayer, so the reanimation trigger reliably hits something meaningful rather than whiffing on an empty yard. In Legacy and Vintage, six mana is a steep ask when cheaper recursion engines exist, and Capricious Hellraiser can't compete on raw efficiency. Modern and Pioneer are similarly unkind; the format clocks are too fast for a top-end threat that needs a stocked graveyard to deliver full value. Stick to Commander, where the random targeting is a feature in a politics-rich environment and the card advantage is essentially free.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Capricious Hellraiser isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the live number. Given the six-mana slot and Commander-specific appeal, it tends to move with set release cycles, so buying near a reprint or bulk window is the practical move.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.