Ancient Vendetta
Sorcery
Choose a card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for up to four cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #25094
Ancient Vendetta exiles a target creature and gives you life equal to its toughness — a clean two-for-one that scales hard in creature-heavy metas. At three mana at instant speed, the rate is good enough to run in most black Commander decks that want cheap interaction.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ancient Vendetta earns its slot as budget unconditional removal that also stabilizes your life total against combat-heavy tables — the life gain matters more in a four-player game than it ever would in a 1v1. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, exile-based removal exists at the same mana cost with fewer hoops, so Ancient Vendetta doesn't crack those main decks. Legacy and Vintage have even steeper competition, pushing it firmly to bulk-bin territory in those formats. Standard is where it sees the most rotation-proof play, since the card pool is shallow enough that three-mana instant-speed exile with upside is genuinely above rate.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Ancient Vendetta is deep bulk — buy a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. Bulk removal rarely appreciates unless it breaks into a competitive 60-card format, which isn't on the horizon here, so treat it as a cheap Commander staple and nothing more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.