Haunted Fengraf
Land
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, , Sacrifice this land: Return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander 2014
- Price
- $0.84
- EDHREC rank
- #7198
Haunted Fengraf gives you a repeatable, sorcery-speed creature recursion stapled to a land — the catch is that it sacrifices itself and the creature is chosen at random. It earns a slot in decks that treat the graveyard as a resource and can afford the randomness, but commanders like Kozilek, the Great Distortion that run few creatures make the odds of hitting what you want uncomfortably poor.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Kozilek, the Great Distortion decks often run a lean creature suite, which cuts against Haunted Fengraf's random return — but when your biggest threat is Kozilek itself, a colorless land that can fish it back from the bin without requiring colored mana is exactly the kind of redundancy a monocolorless deck wants.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Haunted Fengraf occupies the lower tier of recursion lands — playable in decks that flood the graveyard with creatures and can tolerate variance, but outclassed by more reliable options whenever budget allows. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive consideration, since the card pool for land-based recursion at common is shallow and the random element matters less when your graveyard is deep. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is far too slow and unreliable to compete — no deck in those formats wants to sacrifice a land for a coin-flip return at sorcery speed. Modern has better options at every price point, so Haunted Fengraf never made a dent there either.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.84 bulk tier
At $0.84, Haunted Fengraf sits at the upper edge of bulk — cheap enough to throw into any budget build without a second thought. It's a common with narrow appeal, so there's no meaningful price pressure pushing it higher.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.