Back from the Brink
Enchantment
Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Create a token that's a copy of that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #20290
Back from the Brink turns every creature in your graveyard into a repeatable token factory — pay its mana cost, exile it, get a copy that attacks the same turn it enters. Six mana is a real ask for an enchantment with no immediate impact, so it earns its slot only in decks that fill the graveyard fast and win through creature volume.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Back from the Brink is a Commander card through and through — the long game, multiplayer pressure, and graveyard-centric archetypes all give it room to generate absurd value over several turns. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant; six mana enchantments that don't win immediately have no place in formats measured in three-turn clocks. Oathbreaker could support it in the right shell, but the 20-life starting total compresses the window where a slow enchantment is acceptable. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Back from the Brink is pure bulk — easy to pick up in any trade binder or cheap online order without a second thought. The price reflects limited reprint history rather than power level, so it's unlikely to spike unless it lands in a precon or Commander-focused product.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.