Charforger
Creature — Phyrexian Beast
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 red Phyrexian Goblin creature token.
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this creature.
Remove three oil counters from this creature: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #19730
Charforger turns every sacrificed token into a charge counter, then cashes those counters for a free Treasure when the pile gets big enough — meaningful card advantage stapled to a repeatable mana engine. The cost is a three-mana 2/2 that does nothing the turn it enters; pair it with Nim Deathmantle loops or mass-token generators and the payoff is real, but it's dead weight in decks that can't feed it consistently.
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 |
Charforger is a Commander card through and through — the token-sacrifice loops that power it exist almost exclusively in 100-card singleton, and the slower game pace gives you time to accumulate counters before cashing out. In Modern or Legacy it's simply too slow and too fragile; a 2/2 for three that requires board infrastructure to do anything won't survive the tempo gauntlet of those formats. Pioneer is the same story. Charforger is legal in Oathbreaker, where aggressive token commanders can exploit it, but Commander is where it actually gets to do its job.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Nim DeathmantleAshnod's AltarCharforger
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Charforger sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without a second thought if your deck wants it. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications rarely climb unless a format breakout forces the issue, so don't expect meaningful movement, but at this price you're not taking any financial risk.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.