Archfiend of Sorrows
- Mana cost
- {5}{B}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Demon
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 5
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons #285 (uncommon)
Flying
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Unearth {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Archfiend of Sorrows has 3 printings, first in Modern Horizons 2 (2021). EDHREC ranks it #15,296 among Commander cards. It appears most in Myojin of Night's Reach decks (2 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Archfiend of Sorrows most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Myojin of Night's Reach: 2 decks
- Proft, Sinister Mastermind: 2 decks
Often played with Archfiend of Sorrows
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a creature returned to the battlefield by the unearth ability would leave it for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it. In that case, the spell or ability succeeds at exiling the creature. If the spell or ability later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Ephemerate might, for example), the creature card will return as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effect will no longer apply to it.
- : Activating a creature card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting the creature card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the creature card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Cancel) will not.