Free from Flesh
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Put two oil counters on it.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #18115
Free from Flesh turns any creature into a 3/3 Spirit token permanently — the original body is gone, but you keep a real blocker or attacker on the board at instant speed. One mana, immediate board presence, and it enables spirit-tribal payoffs; it's a narrow but efficient rate for the decks that want it.
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, Free from Flesh slots into spirit-tribal builds and any deck that wants to convert a dying or redundant creature into a relevant token — the instant speed matters when you're responding to a removal spell and salvaging value. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive relevance, since a one-mana token generator at instant speed is a real rate at that power level. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too incidental to compete with dedicated token generators or protection spells. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the effect doesn't match the power density of those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: playable in the right spirit shell, ignored everywhere else.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Free from Flesh is deep bulk — you're paying postage, not a card price. Bulk commons don't appreciate unless a format breaks them, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.