Junún Efreet

Creature — Efreet

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {B}{B}.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Fourth Edition
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#30701
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Junún Efreet card art
Junún Efreet is a 3/3 flyer for four mana — passable stats — but the upkeep cost of {B}{B}{B} or sacrificing it makes it functionally unplayable outside of mono-black shells with serious mana depth. Even there, the opportunity cost is too high when better four-drop threats exist.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Junún Efreet is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but that legality is theoretical — it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, the triple-black upkeep is a brutal ask in a format where multicolor mana bases are the norm and you rarely want to sink three black sources into keeping a single 3/3 alive. Legacy and Vintage have long since outpaced anything Junún Efreet offers, and Oathbreaker's compact game length means you can't afford that kind of recurring tax on your mana. This is a card that exists on legal lists, not inclusion lists.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Junún Efreet sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its playability accurately. Don't expect it to climb — demand is negligible, and no emerging archetype is going to rehabilitate a card with this upkeep structure.

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