Infernal Phantom
Creature — Spirit
Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
When this creature dies, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #21468
Infernal Phantom enters as a 4/4 for four mana — respectable stats — but its power scales with the number of cards in your hand, shrinking if you're drawing well and growing if you're hellbent. That conditional ceiling makes it a poor fit for most decks that want consistent threats.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Infernal Phantom is legal across every major constructed format, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, the hand-size dependency cuts against you — most black decks at the table are drawing aggressively, which means Infernal Phantom often underperforms its four-mana slot rather than exceeding it. Hellbent or discard-matters builds with commanders like Obosh, the Preypiercer or Chainer, Nightmare Adept could theoretically weaponize the empty-hand upside, but better payoffs exist at the same cost. In 60-card formats, a vanilla 4/4 at four mana doesn't clear the bar in Modern or Pioneer without an unconditional upside.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Infernal Phantom sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that fills out a common box but rarely gets pulled for a deck slot. There's no price pressure pushing it up, and its narrow conditional text gives it no realistic path out of the bulk bin.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.