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Firestorm Phoenix

Creature — Phoenix

Flying
If this creature would die, return it to its owner's hand instead. Until that player's next turn, that player plays with that card revealed in their hand and can't play it.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Masters Edition III
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#28154
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Firestorm Phoenix card art
Firestorm Phoenix is a recursive threat that keeps coming back from the graveyard — unless your opponent pays the mana tax to keep it dead. The combo ceiling with Phyrexian Altar turns that recursion into a repeatable engine, which is the real reason to run it.

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 Firestorm Phoenix actually earns its slot, specifically in sacrifice and recursion shells that want a creature repeatedly cycling through the graveyard. Legacy and Vintage have it legal, but the rate is too slow for those formats — a five-mana 3/2 with conditional recursion doesn't compete at that level. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: fine in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't currently available for Firestorm Phoenix, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Given its niche role, it typically doesn't command a premium — but verify before you buy.

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