Foul Spirit
Creature — Spirit
Flying
When this creature enters, sacrifice a land.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.65
- EDHREC rank
- #30592
Foul Spirit is a 3/4 flyer for three mana — above-rate stats in black — but it enters the battlefield requiring you to return a land to your hand, which sets your mana development back a full turn. The body is real; the cost is real; the math rarely works out in its favor.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Foul Spirit is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in none of them. In Commander, a 3/4 flyer that bounces your own land is simply outclassed by every comparable black threat at three mana — the format's card pool is too deep to justify the tempo loss. In Pauper, where efficient commons matter most, the land-bounce cost is punishing enough that aggressive and midrange black decks ignore Foul Spirit entirely in favor of creatures that don't set back their own mana. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it at all.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.65 bulk tier
At $0.65, Foul Spirit sits at the high end of bulk — you're paying a small premium over true bulk pricing without getting a card that earns a slot in competitive or casual lists. Demand is low enough that this price is unlikely to climb; it's a collector's curiosity at best.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.