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Choose up to four target creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal
Price
$3.30
EDHREC rank
#7433
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Continue? card art
Continue? puts an opponent in a brutal spot the moment it resolves: pay life equal to the number of creatures they control or watch every one of those creatures die — and if you have Phyrexian Altar on board, you convert the aftermath into immediate mana. Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart is the commander that makes this effect truly recursive, turning a one-shot punisher into a repeatable engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Leonardo, the BalanceMichelangelo, the Heart

Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart

73.9% of decks · synergy 0.67

Continue? shows up in nearly 74% of Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart decks because Leonardo cares about life payment and creature sacrifice effects at a fundamental level, making every activation of Continue? feed directly into the deck's core loop.

02
Splinter, Radical Rat

Splinter, Radical Rat

20.1% of decks · synergy 0.19

Splinter, Radical Rat appears in about 20% of Splinter, Radical Rat decks — a meaningful inclusion rate that reflects how well Continue? pairs with strategies that want to threaten mass removal while pressuring life totals simultaneously.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Continue? is a Commander card through and through — the effect scales with the number of creatures at the table, which means a four-player game turns every activation into a political firestorm or a board-clearing threat that no single-player format can replicate. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal, but the effect is too slow and too opponent-choice-dependent to compete with those formats' solution density. Oathbreaker offers the same multi-opponent dynamic as Commander on a compressed scale, and Continue? is fine there if your signature spell lines up with the life-payment angle.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

44 decks
Continue?Phyrexian AltarEternal Witness

Continue?Phyrexian AltarEternal Witness

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite recursion of creatures you control; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

$3.30 cheap tier

At $3.30, Continue? sits in the cheap tier — accessible enough that there's no reason to proxy it if you're building a deck that wants it. Niche enchantments with a single high-synergy commander tend to hold this price floor as long as Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart remains popular, but don't buy it as a spec — buy it because your deck needs it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.