Defiler of Dreams
Creature — Phyrexian Sphinx4/3$0.60
Flying As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay. Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.
Legal in Commander
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Combos 4
Defiler of Dreams + Shrieking Drake + Aetherflux Reservoir
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite damage
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Your life total is at least four.
Steps
Cast Shrieking Drake by paying 2 life. Defiler of Dreams and Aetherflux Reservoir trigger. Resolve the Aetherflux Reservoir trigger, causing you to gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Resolve the Defiler of Dreams trigger, causing you to draw a card. Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand. Repeat until you have an empty library. Activate Aetherflux Reservoir by paying fifty life, dealing fifty damage to any target. Repeat step 7 as many times as desired.
Defiler of Dreams + Aetherflux Reservoir + Cloudstone Curio
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite damage
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Your life total is at least 5. You have a blue nonartifact permanent card in hand with mana cost {U}. You control a nontoken nonartifact blue permanent with mana cost {U} that shares a card type with the card in hand.
Steps
Cast the blue permanent card in your hand by paying 2 life. Defiler of Dreams and Aetherflux Reservoir triggers. Resolve the Defiler of Dreams trigger, causing you to draw a card. Resolve the Aetherflux Reservoir trigger, causing you to gain 1 life for each spell you've cast before it this turn. The blue permanent enters the battlefield, triggering Cloudstone Curio, returning another nontoken nonartifact blue permanent with mana cost {U} from the battlefield to your hand. Repeat until you have an empty library. Activate Aetherflux Reservoir by paying fifty life, dealing fifty damage to any target. Repeat step 7 as many times as desired.
Defiler of Dreams + Shrieking Drake + Mind Over Matter
- Infinite looting
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You control an artifact, creature or land that can tap to produce at least {U}.
Steps
Activate an artifact, creature, or land by tapping it, adding at least {U}. Cast Shrieking Drake by paying {U}. Defiler of Dreams triggers, causing you to draw a card. Resolve Shrieking Drake, causing it to enter the battlefield, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand. Activate Mind over Matter by discarding a card, untapping the mana-producing permanent from step 1. Repeat.
Defiler of Dreams + Shrieking Drake + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have at least 3 life
Steps
Cast Shrieking Drake by paying 2 life. Defiler of Dreams triggers, causing you to draw a card. Sheoldred's second ability triggers, causing you to gain 2 life. When Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself to your hand. Repeat.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook. Only combos of 2 or 3 named cards are listed.
Best commanders
Commanders whose abilities work with this card and share its colors, from what the cards do.
- Unesh, Criosphinx SovereignDefiler of Dreams is a Sphinx, which Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign can use.
- The Ur-SphinxDefiler of Dreams is a Sphinx, which The Ur-Sphinx can use.