Beacon of Unrest
Sorcery
Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2016
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #4258
Beacon of Unrest puts any artifact or creature from any graveyard directly onto your battlefield under your control — no mana tax on what you're stealing, and it shuffles itself back into your library so you can fire it again. Five mana is the honest cost, and for decks like Imotekh the Stormlord that fill graveyards as a resource, it's a reliable engine piece rather than a one-shot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Imotekh the Stormlord
Imotekh the Stormlord mills opponents and generates artifact tokens, which means graveyards fill fast and Beacon of Unrest always has targets — often stealing the best artifact that just got milled.
Trazyn the Infinite
Trazyn the Infinite wants to borrow powerful permanents from across the table, and Beacon of Unrest extends that predatory reach into every graveyard, recurring recursively thanks to its shuffle clause.
Hidetsugu and Kairi
Hidetsugu and Kairi puts cards from the top of libraries into graveyards on every attack trigger, seeding targets that Beacon of Unrest can immediately snap up on a follow-up turn.
Anje Falkenrath
Anje Falkenrath churns through the deck at speed, often discarding high-value creatures along the way, and Beacon of Unrest converts that incidental discard into a reanimation engine.
Horobi, Death's Wail
Horobi, Death's Wail kills creatures the moment they're targeted, stocking graveyards rapidly, and Beacon of Unrest lets you harvest the best of what dies — including your opponents' creatures that Horobi just dispatched.
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 |
Commander is where Beacon of Unrest does its best work: three opponents means three graveyards to raid, and the shuffle-back clause gives long games a recurring threat that never fully goes away. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but rarely sees play — five mana is too slow for those formats when cheaper reanimation like Reanimate and Animate Dead exist. Oathbreaker is a legitimate home for the same reasons as Commander, especially in black artifact or graveyard strategies where the recurring nature justifies the cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Beacon of Unrest is firmly bulk — it's been printed enough times that supply is deep and the price reflects that. For what it does in Commander, bulk is exactly the right price; there's no reason not to include it in any black graveyard strategy that can afford five mana.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.