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Xenograft

Enchantment

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Each creature you control is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
New Phyrexia
Price
$0.61
EDHREC rank
#13872
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Xenograft card art
Xenograft blankets your entire board in a chosen creature type for four mana — every creature you control becomes whatever tribe you need, permanently, until someone removes an enchantment. Tribal payoffs that care about Pirates, Wizards, or anything else snap into focus instantly; Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator triggers off any creature dealing combat damage once you name Pirate.

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

Xenograft is a Commander card through and through — four mana for a global type-grant is too slow and too narrow for Legacy or Vintage, where it's technically legal but irrelevant. In Commander, it's a legitimate engine piece in any tribal deck that wants to cheat non-members into the tribe, or in any deck that wants to abuse a single powerful payoff that cares about one creature type. Oathbreaker can make use of it in the same tribal-cheat role, though the smaller deck size means you're more likely to just run the real tribal members.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.61 bulk tier

At $0.61, Xenograft is firmly bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Supply is consistent enough that the price is unlikely to spike unless a new Commander precon makes tribal-type-blending a mainstream strategy.

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