Council of Echoes
Creature — Spirit Advisor
Flying
Descend 4 — When this creature enters, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, return up to one target nonland permanent other than this creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #24905
Council of Echoes puts a copy of every spell you cast onto the stack — effectively doubling your output for as long as it stays in play. The cost is a five-mana enchantment that does nothing the turn it lands and dies to any enchantment removal, so you need a deck built to protect it and capitalize immediately.
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 |
In Commander, Council of Echoes is the card's natural home — four opponents means four times the political chaos, and spell-slinger or spellcopy commanders turn it into a repeatable engine that snowballs fast. In 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, a five-mana do-nothing enchantment is far too slow for the pace of those games, and the effect rarely survives long enough to generate value. Vintage has the raw power to accelerate it into play, but the format's threat density means it still competes poorly for a slot. Oathbreaker offers a middle ground — faster games than Commander but a signature spell that can be copied by Council of Echoes each cast is a real angle worth exploring.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Council of Echoes is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a genuinely powerful effect in the right shell. Bulk rares with narrow windows rarely climb on their own, but at this price it's a zero-regret pickup for any spell-doubling Commander build.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.