Syphon Fuel
Instant
Target creature gets -6/-6 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #21277
Syphon Fuel creates three 1/1 black Thrull tokens and gains you 3 life for five mana — reasonable on paper, but five mana is a steep ask for a token producer that doesn't scale and doesn't threaten anything. Better token generators exist at every price point, and this one earns its slot only in the narrowest of life-gain-matters or Thrull-tribal contexts.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Syphon Fuel is legal across every major format, but the honest read is that it's only worth considering in Commander. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — five mana for three 1/1s and 3 life is too slow and too low-impact to see any play. In Commander, the token-plus-lifegain split has appeal in dedicated aristocrats or lifegain-matters shells, but even there the card competes against more efficient options that also produce tokens or gain life at lower cost. Pauper is technically an option, but the format's faster pace makes this even harder to justify.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Syphon Fuel is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder filler slot. The price reflects demand accurately; don't expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.