Phantasmal Fiend
Mana value4TypeCreature — Illusion
Color identity
Dimir
RarityCommon
SetMasters Edition II (ME2)
ArtistScott Kirschner
Price€0.08 · $0.09About this card
Phantasmal Fiend is a creature card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 4 (color identity: black and blue). First printed in Alliances (1996); 5 paper printings in total. Legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage and Pauper. Cheapest printing: €0.08 (Coldsnap Theme Decks); most expensive: €0.29 (Deckmasters).
Phantasmal Fiend
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.Name in each language
Legality
Rulings
2021-03-19
Effects that switch a creature's power and toughness apply after all other effects, regardless of when those effects began to apply. For instance, if you target a 1/2 creature then give it +2/+0 later in the turn, it's a 2/3 creature, not a 4/1 creature.
2021-03-19
Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a creature may become lethal if you switch its power and toughness during that turn.
2021-03-19
Switching a creature's power and toughness twice (or any even number of times) effectively returns the creature to the power and toughness it had before any switches.
2008-10-01
Effects that switch power and toughness are always applied last when determining a creature's power and toughness, even if other power/toughness-changing effects are created later in the turn. For example, if you activate Phantasmal Fiend's first ability, it will become 2/4. Then if you activate its second ability, it will become 4/2. Then if you activate its first ability again, it will become 3/3.
2005-11-01
Note that the wording "Effects that alter the creature's power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa, this turn" has been removed.
