Parallax Inhibitor
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a fade counter on each permanent with fading you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #30687
Parallax Inhibitor lets you remove fade counters from your own permanents to phase out opponents' creatures, turning your resource management into a repeatable pseudo-removal engine. The cost is real — you're accelerating the countdown on your own Parallax cards — but the tempo swing against a single opponent's board is worth it in the right shell.
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 |
Parallax Inhibitor is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer table is where phasing out a specific player's blockers or threats before a kill swing pays off most, and the slow setup cost is tolerable in a 40-life format. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; no competitive deck wants a three-mana enchantment that requires a Parallax engine already in play to do anything. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's DNA that the card could see fringe play there, but the smaller deck size makes assembling the constellation of Parallax permanents harder.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Parallax Inhibitor is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. It's a niche piece with a narrow home, so don't expect the price to move unless a high-profile Parallax combo deck breaks through somewhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.