Infernal Genesis
Enchantment
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills a card. Then they create X 1/1 black Minion creature tokens, where X is the milled card's mana value.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $4.91
- EDHREC rank
- #14433
Infernal Genesis floods every player's board with tokens while milling them simultaneously — the symmetry is the point, not a drawback, because you build around it and your opponents don't. Six mana is real, but the effect snowballs hard enough that Grismold, the Dreadsower and similar token-hungry commanders treat this as a priority inclusion.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Grismold, the Dreadsower
Grismold, the Dreadsower grows from every token that dies, and Infernal Genesis hands tokens to every player every upkeep — meaning Grismold gets bigger from opponents' creatures dying just as reliably as your own, turning a symmetrical effect into a one-sided stat engine.
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor creates a Treasure whenever a non-token creature enters under an opponent's control, and Infernal Genesis mills the top card and creates creature tokens equal to its mana value — so the higher the curve in your opponents' decks, the more Treasures Kambal generates off a single enchantment.
Massacre Girl
Massacre Girl wants a board clogged with small creatures so her entry trigger chains into a full wipe, and Infernal Genesis populates that board for free every upkeep — often enough tokens land to set up a lethal Massacre Girl activation without needing any other enabler.
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 Genesis is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — formats where six mana can be reached and where the card's political, symmetrical nature fits the longer game. In Commander it's squarely at home: the multiplayer table amplifies the upkeep trigger by a factor of three, and the mill-plus-tokens engine generates disproportionate value the longer the game goes. Legacy and Vintage have access to it in theory, but six mana for a do-nothing-until-upkeep enchantment doesn't compete there, so its real home is Commander and Oathbreaker. If you're sleeving up Infernal Genesis, you're building a 100-card deck.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.91 cheap tier
At $4.91, Infernal Genesis sits in the cheap tier for a six-mana enchantment with this much board presence — niche enough that demand is concentrated among specific token and mill commanders rather than broad, which keeps the price accessible. It holds value as long as Grismold, the Dreadsower and similar commanders stay popular, but don't buy it as a speculative hold — buy it because your deck wants it today.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.