Phosphorescent Feast
Sorcery
Chroma — Reveal any number of cards in your hand. You gain 2 life for each green mana symbol in those cards' mana costs.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #29192
Phosphorescent Feast can refill your life total dramatically — reveal your hand of green cards and you're looking at 20+ life in a single activation. The cost is real though: five mana and an instant-speed hand reveal is a lot to ask for a life gain effect with no attached pressure.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Phosphorescent Feast is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in Legacy, Modern, and Vintage has no appetite for a five-mana sorcery-speed life gain effect with no board impact — those formats end games before this matters. Commander is its only realistic home, where the slower pace and higher starting life totals make a big swing meaningful, and where green creature-heavy decks can regularly reveal five or six green cards. Even in Commander, it needs a payoff — something that cares about your life total crossing a threshold — or it's just buying time.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Phosphorescent Feast is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box and toss in a binder. There's no price pressure pushing it higher, and given how narrow the use case is, that's where it stays.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.