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Worldheart Phoenix

Creature — Phoenix

Flying
You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than paying its mana cost. If you do, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
BGRUW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Modern Masters 2015
Price
$0.05
EDHREC rank
#29006
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Worldheart Phoenix card art
Worldheart Phoenix is a recursive 2/2 flier that comes back from the graveyard for free whenever you tap one land of each color — a genuine engine in five-color decks, not a cute trick. The catch is that the free recursion demands all five colors, so outside of decks like Morophon, the Boundless where WUBRG mana is already the baseline, the Phoenix is strictly a build-around.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Worldheart Phoenix earns its slot — five-color decks have the mana to trigger the recursion every turn, turning it into a free body that keeps coming back after every wrath. In Legacy and Vintage it's too slow and too small; a 2/2 that costs four mana to cast the first time doesn't compete with those formats' threats. Modern has enough five-color mana bases to technically enable it, but there's no shell that wants a recursive 2/2 over faster threats. Worldheart Phoenix is a Commander card first, and only incidentally legal elsewhere.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.05 bulk tier

At $0.05, Worldheart Phoenix is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a commons box, not tracking it down. Bulk rares with narrow build-around requirements don't climb unless a new five-color commander drives demand, so don't expect the price to move.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.