Fleeting Spirit
Creature — Spirit
, Exile three cards from your graveyard: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.
Discard a card: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #20858
Fleeting Spirit is a recursive white threat that protects itself by discarding a card — trading card advantage for battlefield persistence on demand. It's a solid role-player in discard-matters and graveyard-recursion shells, but too narrow to slot into generic white lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fleeting Spirit earns a seat in decks that want to discard cards for value — Anje Falkenrath, Grenzo Dungeon Warden, or Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer styles of builds where the discard cost is a feature, not a tax. In Modern and Pioneer it competes for a slot in white aggro or Orzhov midrange lists that want a recursive body that dodges targeted removal, though the discard cost keeps it off the staple list. Legacy has better options at every point on the curve, so Fleeting Spirit is fringe there at best. Overall, its ceiling is highest in formats and Commander decks that convert the discard into upside.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Fleeting Spirit is deep bulk — buy a playset without thinking. Price is unlikely to move unless a dedicated discard-matters Commander deck spikes demand, which is a narrow scenario.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.