Vile Manifestation
Creature — Horror
This creature gets +1/+0 for each card with cycling in your graveyard.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #18481
Vile Manifestation enters as a 0/4 and grows a +1/+1 counter for each cycling card in your graveyard, turning a filled bin into a legitimate beatstick with essentially no mana investment beyond the initial two. If you're running a dedicated cycling shell, this is a free threat that scales harder than most finishers you'd pay five or six mana for.
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 |
Vile Manifestation is at its best in Commander inside a cycling-focused deck, where filling the graveyard is the game plan rather than a side effect — commanders like Brallin, Skyshark Rider or Akim, the Soaring Wind give it a natural home. In Modern and Pioneer, it slots into Cycling or Azorius Ephemerate-style lists as a threat that comes down early and grows passively, though those formats demand it compete with faster clocks. Legacy and Vintage are too hostile for a two-mana 0/4 with no immediate board impact, regardless of how large it eventually gets. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home anywhere a cycling-centric build exists.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Vile Manifestation isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures before buying. Given its niche role in cycling synergy decks, it tends to sit in the bulk-to-low-value range — pick it up cheap if you're building the archetype, but don't prioritize it over the cycling payoffs with immediate impact.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.