Dead Reckoning
Sorcery
You may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. If you do, Dead Reckoning deals damage equal to that card's power to target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Worldwake
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #22008
Dead Reckoning deals damage equal to the power of a creature card in your graveyard — so in any deck that puts big threats in the bin, this is a removal spell that scales into the late game. The catch is it costs three mana at sorcery speed, which keeps it out of competitive lists but makes it a real option in graveyard-matters builds.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dead Reckoning is a bulk rare in most formats, but it earns its slot in Commander graveyard decks where the top card of the bin is routinely a 6/6 or bigger — at that point it's a three-mana one-sided Damnation target. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive daylight, since graveyard-fueled value is common there and removal that scales is harder to come by at common. Legacy and Vintage have enough better options that Dead Reckoning never shows up, and it's not legal in Pioneer or Standard.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Dead Reckoning is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any dollar box or bulk rare bin. It's not going up, but you weren't buying it as a spec anyway; you're sleeving it because it's free and does work in the right shell.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.