Infernal Sovereign
Creature — Demon
Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander
- Price
- $0.74
- EDHREC rank
- #11022
Infernal Sovereign hits the board and immediately taxes every opponent's hand, forcing discards or incremental life loss just to cast spells — that pressure compounds fast in a four-player game. The seven-mana price tag is steep, but the effect is a continuous engine, not a one-shot, which makes the investment worthwhile in dedicated black discard and reanimator shells.
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 |
Commander is where Infernal Sovereign belongs — three opponents means three separate discard triggers every time anyone casts a spell, turning the card into a relentless attrition machine that scales with table size in ways it simply cannot in one-on-one formats. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but irrelevant in practice; a seven-mana do-nothing-until-opponents-act threat does not survive long enough to matter in either format. Oathbreaker is legal and shares Commander's multiplayer texture, though the tighter 58-card construction and faster games mean Infernal Sovereign often arrives too late to reshape the board.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.74 bulk tier
At $0.74, Infernal Sovereign sits firmly in bulk rare territory, which undersells how much text is on this card for the price. It holds that floor as long as it stays unplayed in competitive circles — a spike into a breakout Commander list could move it quickly, but as a current pickup for discard or Rakdos builds it is an easy include that costs almost nothing.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.