Desdemona, Freedom's Edge
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
Vigilance
Whenever Desdemona attacks, target creature card in your graveyard that's an artifact or that has mana value 3 or less gains escape until end of turn. The escape cost is equal to its mana cost plus exile two other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast it from your graveyard for its escape cost this turn.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #15795
Desdemona, Freedom's Edge turns every creature you control into a potential sacrifice outlet and anthem, pumping your whole board whenever something dies — that's a lot of text for a five-mana legendary. The cost is that the payoff is incremental rather than explosive, so she rewards patient, engine-oriented builds over anything looking to close fast.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Desdemona, Freedom's Edge is a Commander card through and through — her power scales with a stocked board and repeated triggers over multiple turns, both of which are far more achievable in a 100-card singleton game than anywhere else. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but five mana for a value engine that doesn't win on the spot is a non-starter in those formats. Commander is where the death-trigger loop actually assembles: sacrifice outlets, token generators, and aristocrats payoffs are all abundant, and she has enough political texture to matter at a variety of power levels.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Desdemona, Freedom's Edge is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a mythic-feeling effect. Bulk rares and uncommons at this price point rarely appreciate unless a competitive format picks them up, and there's no sign of that here, so treat it as a cheap pickup for the right Commander build rather than a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.