Phantom Carriage
Creature — Spirit
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card with flashback or disturb, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #25149
Phantom Carriage is a five-mana 4/4 with flying that enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters — and loses one whenever it would take damage, converting lethal hits into counter loss instead. The cost is real: five mana for a body that shrinks under pressure and never regenerates those counters is a steep ask in formats where cheaper threats close games faster.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Phantom Carriage sits at the fringes of competitive play in every format where it's legal. In Commander, the pseudo-damage-prevention makes it a passable evasive threat in counter-synergy shells — Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or similar proliferate commanders can squeeze more mileage out of it — but five mana for a conditional 4/4 rarely earns a slot over dedicated payoffs. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, Phantom Carriage doesn't come close to the efficiency bar; those formats kill or go wide faster than a shrinking flyer can matter. Oathbreaker is the one space where niche utility commanders might find a home for it, but even there the card is filling a role better options cover.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Phantom Carriage is deep bulk — you're picking it up for pennies in a trade binder or as a throw-in. There's no meaningful demand driver to push that price, so treat it as a permanent bulk resident rather than a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.