Errant Ephemeron
Creature — Illusion
Flying
Suspend 4—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska
- Price
- $0.02
- EDHREC rank
- #22401
Errant Ephemeron is a 4/4 flyer for four mana — the catch is that suspend costs seven and it takes four turns to arrive, so you're not casting it in any conventional sense. It's a payoff for suspend-matters builds, not a generically good threat.
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 |
Pauper is where Errant Ephemeron has historically seen the most play, since a 4/4 flyer at common is a legitimate clock and suspend sidesteps the casting restriction cleanly in slower blue control shells. In Commander, it's too slow without explicit suspend synergies — four counters is an eternity when games end on turn 8 or 9. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient threats, so Errant Ephemeron doesn't compete there. If your Commander deck is built around suspend payoffs like Jhoira of the Ghitu, it earns a slot; otherwise, it doesn't.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.02 bulk tier
At $0.02, Errant Ephemeron is deep bulk — you'll spend more on a sleeve than the card. It holds no financial value, but at this price the only reason not to own a copy is that you don't need one.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.