Pitchburn Devils
Creature — Devil
When this creature dies, it deals 3 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #23362
Pitchburn Devils enters as a 3/3, dies for 3 damage to any target, and costs five mana — that's a slow, overpriced package for what amounts to a once-use Shock stapled to a mediocre body. Run it only if you're specifically engineering death triggers or sacrifice loops; otherwise, better five-drops exist in every format.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pitchburn Devils is legal everywhere except Standard, but it barely shows up anywhere competitively. In Commander, it finds its most plausible home in sacrifice-matters decks — Stitcher Geralf, Kardur, Doomscourge, or any Rakdos value engine that wants repeatable death triggers — but even there it's outclassed by cheaper or more reusable options. In Pauper it's a common, so the ceiling is higher relative to the card pool, yet five mana for this effect still sits awkwardly on the curve when aggressive and tempo strategies dominate. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage don't want Pitchburn Devils at any price; the effect simply doesn't scale.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Pitchburn Devils is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. There's no realistic path to price appreciation here; it's the kind of card you pull from a bulk box when you need a sacrifice-trigger placeholder before you find something better.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.