Haunting Apparition
Creature — Spirit
Flying
As this creature enters, choose an opponent.
Haunting Apparition's power is equal to 1 plus the number of green creature cards in the chosen player's graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #30639
Haunting Apparition is a conditional beater — a 1/3 flyer that can grow to 4/3 if you've put enough black cards in your graveyard, but that condition is doing a lot of work for a three-mana creature. Outside of dedicated self-mill or graveyard-matters shells, the floor is unplayably small.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Haunting Apparition is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, the only realistic home is a graveyard-matters deck that's already filling its bin with black cards — think Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or Gisa and Geralf — where the Apparition might grow to a reasonable 4/3 flyer, but still competes against far more impactful three-drops. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent creature at this rate. Oathbreaker inherits the same Commander logic: possible in the right shell, irrelevant everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Haunting Apparition is deep bulk — the price reflects the demand, which is nearly zero. It holds no meaningful financial value and is unlikely to move unless a future graveyard commander creates a specific enough niche to pull it from obscurity.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.