Footlight Fiend
Creature — Devil
When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #15806
Footlight Fiend enters the battlefield and immediately threatens a free point of damage to anything when it dies — a death trigger that costs nothing extra and lines up cleanly with sacrifice synergies. Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin turns that one-damage ping into a card and a counter, and Raphael, Fiendish Savior gives the Fiend lifelink, making even a chump block net positive.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Raphael, Fiendish Savior
Raphael, Fiendish Savior grants all Devils and Demons lifelink, so Footlight Fiend blocks, gains life, then deals a damage on death — three separate effects for one mana, which is exactly the kind of value density Raphael creature packages want.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Footlight Fiend is a cheap sacrifice fodder piece with a death trigger that scales well when your commander cares about pings or lifegain. In Pauper, it has seen fringe play in Rakdos sacrifice shells where one-mana bodies with built-in upside keep the engine running. Modern and Pioneer have enough efficient one-drops that Footlight Fiend rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated sacrifice strategies, where it competes with stronger options at the same cost. Legacy and Vintage don't give it a second look.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ob Nixilis, Captive KingpinMortuaryFootlight FiendThermopod
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Ob Nixilis, Captive KingpinMortuaryFootlight FiendPhyrexian Altar
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Footlight Fiend sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up without thinking twice when building a Rakdos sacrifice or Devil tribal list. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow utility rarely appreciate, so treat it as a throw-in, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
- Raphael, Fiendish Savior
- Mortuary
- Thermopod
- Phyrexian Altar
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.