Volrath the Fallen
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
, Discard a creature card: Volrath gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's mana value.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $1.38
- EDHREC rank
- #21343
Volrath the Fallen turns any creature in your hand into a discard-fueled pump spell — pitch a 10-drop, swing for lethal out of nowhere. The cost is real: you're hemorrhaging hand cards, so this card lives or dies by how aggressively your deck recurs or rewards those discards.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Volrath the Fallen, either as the commander itself heading a mono-black discard-value shell or as a 99-piece threat in any black deck that wants a one-card kill condition. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes on paper, but a six-mana 4/4 that needs hand resources to close has never been competitive in either format — it simply doesn't survive the tempo math. Oathbreaker is legal but shares the same problem at that cost. Wherever it shows up, Volrath the Fallen is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$1.38 cheap tier
At $1.38, Volrath the Fallen sits firmly in budget territory despite being a legendary creature with a genuine build-around payoff. The price is stable — casual Commander demand keeps a floor under it, but it's never going to spike without a reprint or a breakout combo discovery.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.