Heirloom Mirror // Inherited Fiend
Artifact // Creature — Demon
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, Pay 1 life, Discard a card: Draw a card, mill a card, then put a ritual counter on this artifact. Then if it has three or more ritual counters on it, remove them and transform it. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #18182
Heirloom Mirror // Inherited Fiend earns its slot by looting on your upkeep until it flips into a 3/4 flying demon that replaces itself with a tutor — three distinct effects stapled to one two-mana artifact. The cost is time: it takes three triggers to transform, so you need a deck that can afford the setup and actually wants the discard along the way.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Heirloom Mirror // Inherited Fiend — the 100-card singleton format rewards the looting as self-mill or madness fuel, and the demon's enters-the-battlefield tutor is a tempo swing worth waiting for in a slower, multiplayer game. Reanimator commanders like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or The Scarab God can use both halves: the graveyard fill from early looting, then a free creature tutor to set up the next reel. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Pioneer, but the three-turn setup is too slow against streamlined combo and aggro — any of those formats has cheaper, faster ways to loot or tutor.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Heirloom Mirror // Inherited Fiend is deep bulk, which makes it a zero-risk pickup for any graveyard or discard synergy deck. Bulk rares with niche Commander applications tend to stay in this tier indefinitely, so there's no urgency — but there's also no reason not to grab a copy next time you're placing an order.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.