Illusionary Servant
Creature — Illusion
Flying
When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2010
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #26490
Illusionary Servant puts a 3/4 flying body on the board for three mana — above-rate stats for the cost — but the illusion drawback means a single targeted spell or ability kills it without spending a card on removal. It earns a slot only when you're either exploiting that self-sacrifice or running lord effects that make the threat too wide to answer one at a time.
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, Illusionary Servant is a marginal inclusion outside dedicated Illusion tribal builds, where lords like Lord of the Unreal or Phantasmal Image payoffs justify running every illusion body you can find. In Pauper it competes with more resilient common threats and the drawback is punishing in a removal-heavy format. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the power ceiling is too low and the fragility too real. Illusion tribal is the only context where Illusionary Servant reliably earns its slot.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Illusionary Servant is deep bulk — you'll pick it out of a commons box or grab a playset for pocket change. There's no financial case to think about here; you run it because the tribal synergy demands it, not because it holds any value.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.