Coiling Rebirth
Sorcery
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then if the gift was promised and that creature isn't legendary, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4195
Coiling Rebirth puts a permanent directly onto the battlefield — no mana cost paid, no casting required — which makes the three-mana price tag on the spell itself largely irrelevant when what you're cheating into play costs six or more. In Hidetsugu and Kairi decks especially, it turns a top-deck trigger into an immediate board presence rather than a hand card waiting for a future turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hidetsugu and Kairi
Hidetsugu and Kairi reveals the top card on dealing damage and casts it for free if it's a noncreature spell, but Coiling Rebirth covers the creature side of that equation — stack it on top and it enters the battlefield without ever needing to be cast, sidestepping timing restrictions entirely.
The Ancient One
The Ancient One cares about large eldrazi and cosmic threats hitting the board as fast as possible, and Coiling Rebirth converts any top-deck manipulation into a free deployment — letting The Ancient One skip the mana ramp phase for its biggest payoffs.
The Infamous Cruelclaw
The Infamous Cruelclaw rewards you for flooding the board with large or evasive threats, and Coiling Rebirth slots cleanly into that shell as a way to slam a permanent into play ahead of curve. With 10,000-plus decks on record, the inclusion rate reflects how broadly the effect maps onto any commander that wants permanent velocity.
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller manipulates the top of libraries repeatedly, which makes Coiling Rebirth a near-guaranteed live card every time Zoraline triggers — you arrange the top, then convert it directly into a battlefield permanent rather than a draw.
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 |
Commander is where Coiling Rebirth earns its slot — the format's high average mana cost and emphasis on singular, game-warping permanents make free deployment effects disproportionately powerful compared to sixty-card formats. In Modern and Pioneer the effect is too slow and too narrow; most threats there cost less to cast honestly than to set up a three-mana enabler for. Legacy and Vintage have more degenerate shells that could theoretically abuse Coiling Rebirth, but those formats have faster and more redundant ways to cheat permanents into play. Standard legality makes it accessible to newer players, though the synergy payoff there depends heavily on whether your standard environment offers top-deck manipulation. Treat Coiling Rebirth as a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.