Phyrexian Prowler
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary
Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from this creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30337
Phyrexian Prowler enters the battlefield and immediately taxes your opponents' life totals for each creature you control — the payoff scales with board size and lands the moment it resolves. The cost is that it does nothing beyond that one trigger, leaving you with a vanilla 3/3 the rest of the game.
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 Prowler is a Commander card through and through — token strategies and wide go-tall builds can convert a large board into a punishing life-loss burst the turn it drops. In competitive Legacy and Vintage, a 3/3 for three with a conditional trigger won't clear the bar when faster, more resilient threats dominate; expect it to see zero play there. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case: if your signature spell or planeswalker fuels a wide board, Phyrexian Prowler can close out a game in a single attack step.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Phyrexian Prowler sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire as a throw-in on any order. Bulk rares at this price point rarely climb without a spike in competitive demand, and nothing in the current metagame suggests that's coming, so treat it as a low-risk include rather than a pickup for value.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.