Enigma Eidolon
Creature — Spirit
, Sacrifice this creature: Target player mills three cards.
Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dissension
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #26986
Enigma Eidolon replaces itself on death and hits every opponent when it attacks — solid on-board presence for three mana. The ceiling rises sharply once Dream Halls is in play, where the discard cost to cast spells turns every blue or black card in hand into a free Eidolon trigger machine.
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 |
Commander is where Enigma Eidolon earns its slot, specifically in decks that care about self-mill, graveyard recursion, or discard synergies — the death trigger replaces itself and the evasion adds real pressure. In Pauper it's a legal common, but the format's speed makes a three-mana 2/1 with a slow payoff hard to justify outside dedicated graveyard brews. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to abuse it but also have so many stronger options that Enigma Eidolon rarely surfaces in those lists. Overall, Commander is the correct home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Dream HallsEnigma EidolonSawtooth Loon
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count; Reorder your library, putting a number of cards into your hand equal to the amount of extra cards you had in your hand
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Elite ArcanistMind Over MatterDream SalvageEnigma Eidolon
Infinite draw triggers; Infinite rummaging; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Enigma Eidolon is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice. Bulk rares rarely spike without a breakout combo moment, and nothing on the immediate horizon suggests Enigma Eidolon is due for one.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.