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Immortal Coil

Artifact

{T}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card.
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Shards of Alara
Price
$0.57
EDHREC rank
#14309
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Immortal Coil card art
Immortal Coil turns your graveyard into a life total and makes an opponent lose the game the moment they empty it — the engine is genuinely threatening. The catch is that any deck running Fractured Identity can gift you the Coil back and kill you with your own card, which is why Blim, Comedic Genius is the natural home: you donate the Coil before it becomes your liability.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Blim, Comedic Genius

Blim, Comedic Genius

66.6% of decks · synergy 0.66

Blim, Comedic Genius exists to shove harmful permanents onto opponents, and Immortal Coil is one of the best curses in the format to donate — once an opponent controls it with a thin or empty graveyard, they're on a kill clock they can't easily escape.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Immortal Coil is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only sees meaningful play in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, a four-mana enchantment with a built-in self-destruct condition competes against formats that end games on turns one through three — the card never gets the setup time it needs. Modern is theoretically possible, but the same problem applies: the graveyard synergy is too slow and too fragile against dedicated hate. Commander is where Immortal Coil finds its niche because the longer game gives you time to fill a graveyard, and the multiplayer politics of donating it make the downside someone else's problem.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.57 bulk tier

At $0.57, Immortal Coil is firmly bulk — a negligible entry cost for a card with a real combo ceiling. Bulk rares with narrow but devoted homes tend to stay cheap, so don't expect the price to move unless a high-profile Blim deck puts it on camera.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.