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Kuldotha Phoenix

Creature — Phoenix

Flying, haste
Metalcraft — {4}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep and only if you control three or more artifacts.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#18863
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Kuldotha Phoenix card art
Kuldotha Phoenix is a 4/4 flying haste threat that resurrects itself every upkeep as long as you control three or more artifacts — the recursion is free once the engine is running. The four-mana cost is real, but commanders like Syrix, Carrier of the Flame and Anax, Hardened in the Forge turn it into a punishment loop that opponents can rarely outpace.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

53.5% of decks · synergy 0.53

Syrix, Carrier of the Flame triggers whenever a Phoenix you control dies, dealing damage equal to the Phoenix's power to any target — Kuldotha Phoenix, with its built-in recursion, means that trigger fires repeatedly across multiple turns rather than once.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Kuldotha Phoenix sees virtually no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where four mana for a conditional recursive beater can't compete with the format's speed. Commander is where it actually lives — artifact-heavy red decks generate the three-permanent threshold almost incidentally, making the self-recursion effectively permanent. The sweet spot is any Commander shell that floods the board with artifact tokens or cheap artifacts and wants a flying finisher that laughs at spot removal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Kuldotha Phoenix isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given its narrow Commander niche and limited competitive presence, it has historically been an inexpensive pickup — budget artifact-red players should verify before assuming it's bulk.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.