Detective's Phoenix
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Enchantment Creature — Phoenix
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 #116 (rare)
- Price
- $1.03 USD
Bestow—{R}, Collect evidence 6. (To pay this bestow cost, pay {R} and exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)
Flying, haste
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and haste.
You may cast this card from your graveyard using its bestow ability.
Detective's Phoenix has 3 printings, first in Modern Horizons 3 (2024). EDHREC ranks it #8,633 among Commander cards. It appears most in Syrix, Carrier of the Flame decks (1,517 on EDHREC). It has 7 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 Detective's Phoenix most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Syrix, Carrier of the Flame: 1,517 decks
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno: 972 decks
- Wildsear, Scouring Maw: 444 decks
- Malfegor: 429 decks
- Spider-Man 2099: 402 decks
- Gau, Feral Youth: 303 decks
- Three Dog, Galaxy News DJ: 287 decks
- Inti, Seneschal of the Sun: 282 decks
Often played with Detective's Phoenix
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a permanent with bestow enters the battlefield by any method other than being cast, it will be an enchantment creature. You can't choose to pay the bestow cost and have it become an Aura.
- : On the stack, a spell with bestow is either a creature spell or an Aura spell. It's never both, although it's an enchantment spell in either case.
- : Auras attached to a creature don't become tapped when the creature becomes tapped. Except in some rare cases, an Aura with bestow remains untapped when it becomes unattached and becomes a creature.
- : If you can't exile enough cards to meet or exceed the required mana value, you can't choose to collect evidence at all.
- : Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard to stop you from collecting evidence.
- : Unlike other Aura spells, an Aura spell with bestow isn't countered if its target is illegal as it begins to resolve. Rather, the effect making it an Aura spell ends, it loses enchant creature, it returns to being an enchantment creature spell, and it resolves and enters the battlefield as an enchantment creature.
- : Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner's graveyard if it becomes unattached. Rather, the effect making it an Aura ends, it loses enchant creature, and it remains on the battlefield as an enchantment creature. It can attack (and its {T} abilities can be activated, if it has any) on the turn it becomes unattached if it's been under your control continuously, even as an Aura, since your most recent turn began.