Yawgmoth Demon
Creature — Phyrexian Demon
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you don't, tap this creature and it deals 2 damage to you.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Chronicles
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #27781
Yawgmoth Demon is a 6/6 flying first striker for six mana — threatening stats — but the upkeep clause demanding you sacrifice an artifact or lose first strike and take three damage makes it a liability in any deck that isn't actively churning through artifacts. Run it only when you can feed it every turn without thinking; otherwise it's a punishing vanilla.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Yawgmoth Demon finds its narrowest but most forgiving home: artifact sacrifice synergies — Breya, Etherium Shaper or Daretti, Scrap Savant shells can feed it incidentally, and six mana is reachable by mid-game. In Legacy and Vintage, a 6/6 first striker for six is simply too slow and too conditional when those formats answer it before the upkeep clause ever matters. Yawgmoth Demon is legal in Modern but sees zero competitive play there for the same reason — the cost structure belongs to a different era of the game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Yawgmoth Demon is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. The price is stable in the sense that it has nowhere lower to go; this is a curiosity pick for theme decks, not a card that rewards speculative acquisition.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.