Phyrexian Missionary
Creature — Phyrexian Human Cleric
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Lifelink
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #17084
Phyrexian Missionary enters the battlefield and immediately recovers a creature or planeswalker from your graveyard to your hand — a two-for-one stapled to a 2/3 body for four mana. It's a solid role-player in recursion-heavy shells, but the four-mana investment means it competes hard against cheaper options in tuned lists.
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 |
Commander is where Phyrexian Missionary earns its slot — recursion is universally valuable, and a 2/3 body that replaces itself with a graveyard target fits naturally into Orzhov, Esper, and Grixis value engines. In Modern and Pioneer, four mana for a creature-based recur effect is simply too slow against the format's tempo demands, and dedicated graveyard decks have more efficient tools. Legacy and Vintage are the same story at a sharper scale — Phyrexian Missionary won't see play there. Oathbreaker follows the Commander logic: if your signature spell fuels the graveyard, the Missionary can close the loop cleanly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Phyrexian Missionary is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. That price is stable; there's no scarcity story here, just a useful role-player priced exactly at its casual demand.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.