Fleshwrither
Creature — Horror
Transfigure 
(, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a creature card with the same mana value as this creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Transfigure only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $4.75
- EDHREC rank
- #11575
Fleshwrither turns a four-mana 3/3 with transfigure into a tutor that puts any four-mana creature directly onto the battlefield — the rate is steep but the effect is a repeatable silver-bullet finder. In K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth decks it becomes genuinely efficient, since paying life instead of black mana drops the effective cost to two generic and a handful of life.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth converts Fleshwrither's heavy black pip cost into a life payment, making the transfigure activation cheap enough to treat as a toolbox piece that fetches whatever four-mana creature the board state demands — a combo piece, a removal body, or a value engine — without tapping out on mana.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Fleshwrither's home is Commander, where singleton construction makes on-demand creature tutors worth building around. The transfigure ability finds any four-mana creature in the deck, which in a 99-card format means consistent access to whatever piece completes your engine on a given turn. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant — those formats move too fast for a four-mana setup piece with no immediate board impact. Modern has better toolbox options at lower cost, so Fleshwrither doesn't compete there either. Treat it as a Commander-specific card and build accordingly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.75 cheap tier
At $4.75, Fleshwrither sits in the cheap tier — affordable enough to include speculatively and easy to justify in any K'rrik or mono-black creature toolbox build. It's a low-reprint, niche-role card, so the price is unlikely to crater, but don't pay more than retail for a single copy.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.