Come Back Wrong
Sorcery
Destroy target creature. If a creature card is put into a graveyard this way, return it to the battlefield under your control. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #3715
Come Back Wrong reanimates a creature from any graveyard as a Zombie under your control with haste and "can't block" tacked on — for two mana at instant speed. The cost is real: the creature gets exiled at the next end step, so you're buying one attack, not a permanent body. Pair it with Obeka, Brute Chronologist to skip that end step entirely and keep the creature forever.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Obeka, Brute Chronologist
Obeka, Brute Chronologist's ability to end the turn before the exile trigger resolves turns Come Back Wrong from a one-shot rental into permanent theft — grab the best creature in any graveyard and keep it.
Ratadrabik of Urborg
Ratadrabik of Urborg creates a nonlegendary Zombie token copy whenever a legendary creature you control dies, so Come Back Wrong stealing a legendary creature and swinging with it generates a token snapshot before the exile clause takes it back.
The Master, Multiplied
The Master, Multiplied makes token copies of Daleks — nonlegendary creatures — whenever creatures enter under your control, meaning Come Back Wrong dropping a stolen creature onto the battlefield immediately spawns additional bodies even if the original walks back out at end of turn.
Deadpool, Trading Card
Deadpool, Trading Card cares about creatures dying in unusual ways and rewards chaotic board states, making Come Back Wrong a natural fit for triggering death-adjacent value while also swinging in for surprise damage with an opponent's own threat.
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 |
Come Back Wrong is a Commander card — the 100-card singleton format maximizes the chance that a juicy reanimation target is sitting in someone's graveyard, and instant speed lets you ambush an end step with a stolen Blightsteel Colossus or Vorinclex. The temporary-unless-Obeka clause matters less at a four-player table where one free attack can change the game. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional: you need an opponent's graveyard to be stocked, the creature has to actually close the game in one swing, and you'd almost always rather run Reanimate or Persist effects that keep the creature permanently. Standard legality makes it accessible for newer players, but reanimation isn't a dominant Standard archetype where this would be a staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Come Back Wrong is bulk, and that price is appropriate for a card with a narrow home and a steep conditional payoff. It's not going to spike unless an Obeka-style build breaks into the mainstream spotlight, so grab copies cheaply now if you're building the deck rather than treat it as a hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.