Entropic Eidolon
Creature — Spirit
, Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dissension
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #27798
Entropic Eidolon puts a life-loss clock on your opponents the moment instants and sorceries start resolving, and it scales hard when you loop spells through something like Elite Arcanist. The cost is real — a 2/2 for three mana is below rate, and the effect only matters if you're already casting spells at volume.
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 Entropic Eidolon does its best work, slotting into spellslinger and storm-adjacent builds that cast enough instants and sorceries to turn incremental life loss into a closing condition across four players. In Pauper it's legal but competes with a tight card pool where a 2/2 for three needs to do more to justify its slot. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the effect is too slow and the body too fragile for those formats. Entropic Eidolon is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Elite ArcanistMind Over MatterDream SalvageEntropic Eidolon
Infinite draw triggers; Infinite rummaging; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Entropic Eidolon is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you ever need to order one. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely move off this floor, so don't expect the price to budge.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.