Infernal Denizen
Creature — Demon
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice two Swamps. If you can't, tap this creature, and an opponent may gain control of a creature you control of their choice for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
: Gain control of target creature for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.73
- EDHREC rank
- #26550
Infernal Denizen steals any opponent's creature at the start of each upkeep — no mana cost, no targeting restriction, just a continuous stream of theft that compounds every turn. The catch is real: it eats two untap steps from your swamps, so running it without enough black mana sources leaves you locked out of your own spells.
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 |
Infernal Denizen is a Commander card through and through — the slow, cumulative value it generates over multiple upkeeps only pays off in a long-game multiplayer environment where opponents are fielding legitimately threatening creatures worth stealing. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but unplayable; no competitive deck wants a seven-mana creature that taxes two land untaps in formats where the game is often decided by turn two or three. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer DNA, and Infernal Denizen can function there in a dedicated mono-black shell with enough swamps to absorb the cost. The card's design is fundamentally parasitic on a board state that only Commander reliably provides.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.73 bulk tier
At $0.73, Infernal Denizen sits squarely in bulk territory — easy to pick up without a second thought for any mono-black Commander build that wants repeatable theft. The price is unlikely to move much given the card's niche application, but at this cost the ceiling on disappointment is low.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.