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Creature — Phoenix
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.
{red}{red}{red}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.
2/2
Details
- Rarity
- Rare
- First printed
- Stronghold
- Released
- 1998-03-02
- Artist
- Ron Spencer, Paolo Parente
- Printings
- 7
Prices
- Cheapest legal
- $0.54
- Cheapest foil
- $0.25
TCGplayer market via Scryfall, 2026-10-18; cheapest tournament-legal paper printing.
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Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Shard Phoenix (main or sideboard): 4,173 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 0.5%
- +0.1 ppup 45.5% over vs previous 90 days
- Play rate · 30d
- 0.6%
- +0.2 ppup 53.8% over vs previous 30 days
- Lists · 90d
- 20
- 50% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 1.5
- when main-decked
Monthly play rate (12 × 30 days)
Nov 22, 2025Oct 18, 2026
Months with few lists are noisy; early months have partial paper coverage.
Most often in (90d)
- Oath of Druids3% of lists · 7
- Unclassified2% of lists · 6
- Survival3% of lists · 3
- Mono Red Control9% of lists · 3
- UW Control4% of lists · 1
Often played with
Cards most played alongside Shard Phoenix in its top archetypes over the last 90 days: Oath of Druids (3%), Survival (3%).
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Printings (7)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap the thumbnail to preview a printing; tap the set name to see all cards in that set.
| Printing | Set | USD |
|---|---|---|
 Preview Shard Phoenix — Stronghold #97Stronghold | #97 | $1.89 |
 Preview Shard Phoenix — Ninth Edition #217Ninth Edition | #217 | $0.54 |
 Preview Shard Phoenix — Ninth Edition #217★Ninth Edition | #217★ | — |
 Preview Shard Phoenix — Junior APAC Series #2U06Junior APAC Series | #2U06 | — |
 Preview Shard Phoenix — Junior Series Europe #2E06Junior Series Europe | #2E06 | — |
 Preview Shard Phoenix — Junior Super Series #13Junior Super Series | #13 | — |
 Preview Shard Phoenix — Japan Junior Tournament #2N06Japan Junior Tournament | #2N06 | — |
Price trend
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