Morinfen
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror
Flying
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.81
- EDHREC rank
- #26695
Morinfen lands as a 5/5 flying trampler for five mana — genuinely threatening stats — but the cumulative upkeep drains a life every turn it stays on board, and that clock bites hard in a format where you start at 40. It's a beater that punishes you for winning slowly, which is exactly backwards from what most black decks need.
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 |
In Commander, Morinfen's cumulative upkeep is a liability across long games — 40 life sounds like a buffer until you're down eight from your own card while opponents chip away. Legacy and Vintage can legally run Morinfen, but five mana for a creature with a self-damage clause has never competed in those formats where efficiency is everything. Oathbreaker is legal but faces the same problem at a compressed life total. Morinfen is niche at best across every format it touches — the stat line tempts, but the sustained cost rarely pencils out.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.81 bulk tier
At $0.81, Morinfen sits firmly in bulk territory, which accurately reflects its competitive ceiling. The price is stable for what it is — casual curiosity and Commander experimentation keep a floor under old-border cards like this, but don't expect movement.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.