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Everquill Phoenix

Creature — Phoenix

Mutate {3}{R} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)
Flying
Whenever this creature mutates, create a red artifact token named Feather with "{1}, Sacrifice this token: Return target Phoenix card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped."

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#11040
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Everquill Phoenix card art
Everquill Phoenix gives you a 4/4 flying haste that generates a Feather token on entry — and that Feather is the real prize, enabling mutate triggers, sacrifice loops, and self-replacing recursive lines. The cost is real: four mana at four toughness doesn't pressure fast metas, and the recursion requires a graveyard pipeline that not every red deck wants to maintain. Where that pipeline exists, particularly under Syrix, Carrier of the Flame or alongside Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, it earns every slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

79.2% of decks · synergy 0.79

Syrix, Carrier of the Flame is the definitive home — Everquill Phoenix dying and returning from the graveyard triggers Syrix's damage ping repeatedly, and the Feather token Everquill generates can itself feed sacrifice and recursion loops that chain multiple triggers in a single turn.

02
Illuna, Apex of Wishes

Illuna, Apex of Wishes

46.8% of decks · synergy 0.46

Illuna, Apex of Wishes mutates onto permanents, and the Feather token Everquill Phoenix leaves behind is a cheap, non-land permanent that absorbs the mutate without consuming a creature you care about — a clean way to fire Illuna's cascade-style ability while keeping your real threats untouched.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Everquill Phoenix slots into any graveyard-based red strategy that cares about repeated triggers or needs a durable flying threat with upside — the Feather token creation is genuinely unique and hard to replicate at this mana cost. Modern and Legacy have no interest: four mana for a 4/4 that doesn't immediately win a game gets outclassed by everything at that slot, and eternal formats have no patience for slow recursion engines. Pioneer is the same story — the card is legal but competes against a power level that leaves it on the shelf. Everquill Phoenix is functionally a Commander card, and it plays exactly that role: a resilient, synergy-dense piece in the right 100.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Price data isn't available for Everquill Phoenix at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given its narrow competitive applicability and Commander-specific role, it has historically sat in the budget-to-mid range, making it an easy pickup if your commander rewards it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.