Phabine, Boss's Confidant
Legendary Creature — Cat Advisor
Creature tokens you control have haste.
Parley — At the beginning of combat on your turn, each player reveals the top card of their library. For each land card revealed this way, you create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. Then creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn for each nonland card revealed this way. Then each player draws a card.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- New Capenna Commander
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #9932
Phabine, Boss's Confidant hands every creature you control haste and converts your combat step into a card-advantage engine — the parley trigger alone can refuel your hand while your board swings wide. The cost is a six-mana creature that does nothing until the turn after it resolves, which makes it a liability against reactive decks; pair it with Breath of Fury in token-heavy builds like Rin and Seri, Inseparable and it stops being a value piece and starts being a win condition.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rin and Seri, Inseparable
Rin and Seri, Inseparable floods the board with both cats and dogs on a single spell, and Phabine, Boss's Confidant gives every new token haste while the parley trigger scales directly with the number of creatures attacking — a board of eight tokens means eight cards revealed, which often translates to two or three free drops.
Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second
Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second converts almost any token-generating trigger into cats or dogs, and Phabine, Boss's Confidant ensures each creature enters ready to attack the same turn, keeping the pressure constant rather than waiting a full rotation.
Jetmir, Nexus of Revels
Jetmir, Nexus of Revels rewards raw creature count with trample and double strike at high thresholds, and Phabine, Boss's Confidant provides the haste that lets a freshly built board immediately meet those thresholds on the attack step rather than the following turn.
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 |
Phabine, Boss's Confidant is a Commander card through and through — the parley mechanic is built for multiplayer tables where four players each flip a card, and haste-granting anthems do their best work when you're threatening three opponents at once. In Legacy and Vintage, six mana is a prohibitive rate for a creature that doesn't immediately end the game, and neither format gives Phabine, Boss's Confidant the token density it needs to make parley meaningful. Oathbreaker is the one fringe format where it can appear, slotted under a token-generating planeswalker, though it remains a casual inclusion there rather than a power pick.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Breath of FuryPhabine, Boss's Confidant
Infinite card draw for all players; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite draw triggers for all players; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite combat damage; Near-infinite combat phases; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite creature tokens with haste; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite untap of creatures you control; Near-infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn
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Jaheira, Friend of the ForestAnt QueenPeregrin TookPhabine, Boss's Confidant
Infinite ETB; Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite tapped Food tokens; Infinite tapped creature tokens
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Breath of FuryPhabine, Boss's ConfidantAdeline, Resplendent Cathar
Infinitely powerful creature; Infinite card draw for all players; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite draw triggers for all players; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite combat damage; Near-infinite combat phases; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite creature tokens with haste; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite untap of creatures you control; Near-infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn
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Jaheira, Friend of the ForestAnt QueenQueen Allenal of RuadachPhabine, Boss's Confidant
Infinite ETB; Infinite tapped creature tokens; Infinitely large creature until end of turn
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Ghired, Conclave ExilePhabine, Boss's ConfidantBreath of Fury
Infinite card draw for all players; Infinite draw triggers for all players; Near-infinite combat damage; Near-infinite combat phases; Near-infinite creature tokens with haste; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinitely large creatures until end of turn; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Phabine, Boss's Confidant sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy inclusion — you're not paying a premium for what is genuinely a strong token payoff. Bulk rares at this price can crater further if demand doesn't pick up, but the card sees consistent play in several popular Naya and Jund token strategies, so it's unlikely to lose meaningful value from where it already sits.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.