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Detective's Phoenix

Detective's Phoenix Price

3 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2024

Cheapest $0.32
Median $0.92
Highest $2.00
EDHREC Rank #8,582

Detective's Phoenix has been printed 3 times across 2 sets, first in 2024. Right now the cheapest printing is Modern Horizons 3 #116 at $0.32, while the most expensive is Modern Horizons 3 Promos #116s at $2.00 — about 6× more. The median across 3 priced printings is $0.92. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 3x, including dedicated reprint sets like Modern Horizons 3.

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Every Detective's Phoenix Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
Modern Horizons 3 #116 (R) Cheapest 2024 $0.32 $0.24
Modern Horizons 3 #457 (R) 2024 $0.92 $1.05
Modern Horizons 3 Promos #116s (R) Foil 2024 $2.00 $0.45 foil

Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.

Oracle Text
Enchantment Creature — Phoenix
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.
2 / 2
Legal In
Modern Legacy Vintage Commander Brawl

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 3 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

7 Precedents

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.