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Felisa, Fang of Silverquill

Legendary Creature — Vampire Wizard

Flying
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, create X tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature tokens with flying, where X is the number of counters it had on it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
mythic
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4539
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Felisa, Fang of Silverquill card art
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill turns any creature dying with +1/+1 counters into a swarm of 2/1 Inkling tokens — the payoff is immediate and board-wide. She slots cleanly alongside Elenda, the Dusk Rose, whose self-countering death trigger feeds Felisa's replacement directly, and Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness provides the kind of constant counter distribution that keeps the engine running every combat.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

76.9% of decks · synergy 0.71

Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness dishes out +1/+1 counters to your own creatures at a rate that almost guarantees something dies with counters on it, which is exactly the condition Felisa, Fang of Silverquill needs to fire — the two form a self-sustaining token loop.

02
Nalia de'Arnise

Nalia de'Arnise

72.4% of decks · synergy 0.66

Nalia de'Arnise distributes +1/+1 counters to creatures whenever they enter, so every creature that trades in combat becomes raw material for Felisa, Fang of Silverquill's Inkling production.

03
Breena, the Demagogue

Breena, the Demagogue

66.8% of decks · synergy 0.61

Breena, the Demagogue stacks +1/+1 counters on creatures across the table every turn cycle, and Felisa, Fang of Silverquill converts those counters into tokens the moment any of those creatures die — Breena's political engine becomes a token engine.

04
Reyhan, Last of the AbzanYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

55.7% of decks · synergy 0.54

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan moves counters off dying creatures before they hit the graveyard, but any counters that do resolve through death feed Felisa, Fang of Silverquill; together they create redundant payoffs that are difficult to fully disrupt.

05
Shadrix Silverquill

Shadrix Silverquill

57.2% of decks · synergy 0.51

Shadrix Silverquill can distribute +1/+1 counters and create Inkling tokens on its own, but adding Felisa, Fang of Silverquill as a second payoff means any board wipe or removal spell aimed at your countered-up creatures immediately replaces itself with a flood of 2/1 fliers.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Felisa, Fang of Silverquill lives — the 99 is full of counter-based synergies, sacrifice outlets, and aristocrats loops that make her replacement trigger consistently valuable across a long game. As a commander herself she demands a focused +1/+1 counter shell, but her real home is the 99 of decks that already want counters and tokens as parallel themes. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but competes in formats where a four-mana 3/3 with a conditional token trigger is simply too slow to matter. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander venue where she could carve out a role, particularly paired with a planeswalker that distributes counters, though the format's speed works against her.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current price data for Felisa, Fang of Silverquill isn't available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given her appearance in a precon set and high inclusion rates in synergistic Commander builds, she tends to sit in the affordable range — worth picking up if you're building around counters or Silverquill tribal.

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