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Capricious Hellraiser
Oracle Text
This spell costs {3} less to cast if you have nine or more cards in your graveyard.
Flying
When this creature enters, exile three cards at random from your graveyard. Choose a noncreature, nonland card from among them and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Capricious Hellraiser is a quintessential value bomb for graveyard-heavy red decks, turning a steep seven-mana Dragon into a discounted, evasive threat once you hit nine cards in the yard. In practice, it best supports a midrange-to-combo game plan: you want to trade resources early, stock the graveyard with fetches, looting, removal, and cheap spells, then land a flying 4/4 that immediately recoups cards. The random exile clause adds chaos, but you can bias the outcome by packing a high density of impactful noncreature, nonland spells like burn, discard, extra-turn effects, or card draw, so almost any hit is worth casting for free. It also pairs well with self-mill and rummage effects, which accelerate both the discount and your graveyard quality. The Phyrexian Dragon flavor fits the card’s gameplay perfectly: unstable, invasive, and opportunistic, it rewards decks built to exploit disorder rather than control it.
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Character Background
Capricious Hellraiser is a quintessential value bomb for graveyard-heavy red decks, turning a steep seven-mana Dragon into a discounted, evasive threat once you hit nine cards in the yard. In practice, it best supports a midrange-to-combo game plan: you want to trade resources early, stock the graveyard with fetches, looting, removal, and cheap spells, then land a flying 4/4 that immediately recoups cards. The random exile clause adds chaos, but you can bias the outcome by packing a high density of impactful noncreature, nonland spells like burn, discard, extra-turn effects, or card draw, so almost any hit is worth casting for free. It also pairs well with self-mill and rummage effects, which accelerate both the discount and your graveyard quality. The Phyrexian Dragon flavor fits the card’s gameplay perfectly: unstable, invasive, and opportunistic, it rewards decks built to exploit disorder rather than control it.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-09-05 18:10:43 UTC