Phyrexian Portal
Artifact
: If your library has ten or more cards in it, target opponent looks at the top ten cards of your library and separates them into two face-down piles. Exile one of those piles. Search the other pile for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle the rest of that pile into your library.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition II
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19536
Phyrexian Portal lets you dig three cards deep every turn — the catch is your opponent decides which one you keep, handing them a soft veto on your best threat. That asymmetry is brutal in a vacuum, but The Celestial Toymaker flips the dynamic: when your deck is full of individually dangerous cards, every pile is a bad choice for your opponent.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker turns Phyrexian Portal's supposed downside into a weapon — when every card in your deck is a live threat, the opponent is never making a safe choice, just picking which problem resolves next.
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 |
Phyrexian Portal is a Commander card through and through — the political wrinkle of letting an opponent choose is most interesting across a four-player table where threat assessment gets murky and the 'bad' pile still hurts someone. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but functionally ignored; three mana for conditional card selection is miles behind Brainstorm, Ponder, and Demonic Tutor. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it sees niche play, again only in shells where every card is threatening enough to punish the chooser.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Phyrexian Portal at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number. Given its narrow Commander niche and near-zero competitive presence, it's unlikely to command a premium outside spikes tied to The Celestial Toymaker.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.