Phyrexian Battleflies
Creature — Phyrexian Insect
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #25540
Phyrexian Battleflies is a 1/1 flying creature for two mana that requires you to pay 1 life to give it +1/+0 until end of turn — a fragile body with a costly pump that rarely justifies the slot. In nearly every format, a two-mana 1/1 flier with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no static upside is below the baseline.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Phyrexian Battleflies is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, a 1/1 flier for two does nothing at a table of 40-life opponents — the life-payment pump doesn't scale. Pauper is its most plausible home, where evasive bodies matter more and the common card pool thins out, but even there a two-mana 1/1 flier competes poorly against commons with actual stats or enters-the-battlefield value. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Phyrexian Battleflies sits firmly in bulk — it costs less than a sleeve and is priced exactly where its power level puts it. There's no meaningful demand driver that would move this off the bulk table.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.