Faerie Macabre
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying
Discard this card: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $6.84
- EDHREC rank
- #14757
Faerie Macabre is free graveyard hate that can't be countered — you discard it and exile two target cards from any graveyard at instant speed, no mana required. That combination of zero cost, instant speed, and uncounterability makes it the cleanest answer to graveyard strategies available.
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 |
In Commander, Faerie Macabre earns its slot as zero-mana instant-speed graveyard hate that dodges countermagic — exactly what you want when someone goes for a Thassa's Oracle line or reanimates an Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines on turn four. Pauper is where Faerie Macabre sees its heaviest competitive play, acting as a staple sideboard piece against Dredge and Affinity variants that lean on the graveyard. In Legacy, it competes with Surgical Extraction and Relic of Progenitus, but the free activation keeps it relevant when mana is spoken for. Modern has largely passed it by in favor of more permanent hate like Leyline of the Void, but it still shows up in sideboards that want surgical disruption without spending a card. Vintage and Oathbreaker follow the Commander logic — redundant free interaction is always worth considering when the format's fastest kills run through the graveyard.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Relic of Progenitus and Nihil Spellbomb both cost less than a dollar and exile graveyards more broadly, but they cost mana to activate and can't be pitched from hand at zero cost mid-combo. Faerie Macabre's uncounterability and zero activation cost are genuinely unique — the closest thing to a true budget replacement is running both artifacts together to approximate the same coverage, accepting that you'll need mana open.
Price Context
Current price
$6.84 mid tier
At $6.84, Faerie Macabre sits in the mid tier — meaningful enough to feel in a budget build, but justified given that no other card does exactly what it does at exactly zero cost. It's a stable price for a unique effect with consistent demand across Commander, Pauper, and Legacy.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.