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Metamorphosis Fanatic

Creature — Human Cleric

Lifelink
When this creature enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.
Miracle {1}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
Price
$4.42
EDHREC rank
#3053
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Metamorphosis Fanatic card art
Metamorphosis Fanatic is a free sacrifice outlet that replaces itself — the kind of utility piece combo decks pay real slots for without complaint. The catch is a narrow body and a requirement to build around dying creatures, but Karmic Guide loops and Aminatou, Veil Piercer reanimator shells make that cost irrelevant.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Aminatou, Veil Piercer

Aminatou, Veil Piercer

37.7% of decks · synergy 0.33

Aminatou, Veil Piercer is built to reanimate high-mana-value permanents repeatedly, and Metamorphosis Fanatic gives it a free, on-demand sacrifice outlet that draws a card each time — keeping the engine fed without spending a mana.

02
Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Gyruda, Doom of Depths

29.4% of decks · synergy 0.28

Gyruda, Doom of Depths mills and cheats even-mana-value creatures into play en masse, and Metamorphosis Fanatic fits the even-CMC restriction while providing a sacrifice outlet to reset or loop creatures Gyruda already put on the battlefield.

03
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant

Orah, Skyclave Hierophant

27.4% of decks · synergy 0.27

Orah, Skyclave Hierophant triggers whenever a Cleric dies, so Metamorphosis Fanatic — a Cleric itself — doubles as both a sacrifice engine and a trigger on the way out, pulling more Clerics back from the graveyard with every activation.

04
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

26.5% of decks · synergy 0.22

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist rewards recurring creatures from the graveyard, and Metamorphosis Fanatic creates a tight loop: sacrifice a creature for a card, let Hashaton's ability recover it, repeat.

05

Eddie Brock

21.6% of decks · synergy 0.20

Eddie Brock cares about creatures with power 4 or greater entering and leaving the battlefield, and Metamorphosis Fanatic provides a cheap, repeatable way to sacrifice those creatures on demand while drawing cards to find the next threat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Metamorphosis Fanatic earns its slot — free sacrifice outlets with card draw attached are exactly what reanimator, aristocrats, and creature-loop combo decks want, and the singleton format means the effect is scarce enough to justify the inclusion. Legacy and Vintage both have access to it, but neither format is short on sacrifice effects, and the body is too small to matter in those faster, more powerful contexts. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper can't run it at all, so the card lives and dies by its Commander playability — which is genuinely high in the right shells.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

335 decks
Preston, the VanisherMetamorphosis FanaticFelidar Guardian

Preston, the VanisherMetamorphosis FanaticFelidar Guardian

Exile all nonland permanents opponents control; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite blinking of permanents; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite mana lands you control that enter the battlefield untapped can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$4.42 cheap tier

At $4.42, Metamorphosis Fanatic sits at the high end of the cheap tier, reflecting real demand from multiple popular commander archetypes rather than hype. It's a utility piece with a clear role, so the price is stable as long as aristocrats and reanimator remain common strategies.

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