Defiler of Flesh
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Phyrexian Horror
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- Dominaria United #400 (rare)
- Price
- $0.73 USD
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Defiler of Flesh has 5 printings, first in Dominaria United (2022). EDHREC ranks it #5,817 among Commander cards. It appears most in Captain N'ghathrod decks (2,461 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Defiler of Flesh most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Captain N'ghathrod: 2,461 decks
- Umbris, Fear Manifest: 2,125 decks
- Rowan, Scion of War: 1,842 decks
- Acererak the Archlich: 1,417 decks
- Mortarion, Daemon Primarch: 1,217 decks
- Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor: 915 decks
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse: 856 decks
- Phage the Untouchable: 733 decks
Often played with Defiler of Flesh
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Some players may make the mental shortcut that the Defilers effectively turn one of the colored mana symbols in the spell’s cost into a Phyrexian colored mana symbol. Despite the similarity in function, this ability does not cause the spells to have Phyrexian mana symbols in their costs. Sorry, Rage Extractor!
- : You may only pay the additional cost once per permanent spell.