Card
Phage the Untouchable
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Avatar Minion 4/4
When Phage enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.
Part of 26 known combos, 4 of them two-card. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · LGN · #78
- Cheapest printing
- €4.96
- EDHREC salt
- 0.83
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Endless Whispers, Fractured Identity, Echocasting Symposium, Silverquill Lecturer
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Endless Whispers, Fractured Identity, Echocasting Symposium, Silverquill Lecturer
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Endless Whispers, Fractured Identity
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Endless Whispers, Fractured Identity, Echocasting Symposium, Silverquill Lecturer (early with Endless Whispers, Fractured Identity)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
26 known combos, 4 of them two-card.
- Phage the Untouchable + Endless Whispers
Produces: Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Phage the Untouchable + Fractured Identity
Produces: Each opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Echocasting Symposium + Phage the Untouchable
Produces: Target player loses the game on each of your turns
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2013-07-01 · Wizards of the Coast
In a Commander game where this card is your commander, casting it from the Command zone does not count as casting it from your hand. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
It is only considered "cast from your hand" if you cast it as a spell from your hand. Putting it onto the battlefield from your hand using a spell or ability will cause you to lose the game.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast