Dead Revels
Sorcery
Spectacle 
(You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #18158
Dead Revels returns two creatures from your graveyard to your hand for three mana — solid volume, but the baseline is unexciting. The Bargain clause is the reason to run it: sacrifice a token or a spent artifact and you jump to four creatures, which crosses from playable into genuinely good.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is Dead Revels' home — graveyard recursion that scales with sacrifice fodder fits naturally in reanimator and aristocrats shells that already generate tokens or expendable permanents to Bargain away. In Pauper it's a legal option for slower graveyard decks, though the format's common-level recursion package is crowded and the ceiling here is modest. Modern, Legacy, and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana sorcery that merely returns creatures to hand. Oathbreaker follows the Commander logic: if your planeswalker strategy feeds the graveyard and produces sacrifice fodder, Dead Revels earns a slot; otherwise it doesn't.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Dead Revels is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking about the price. Bulk commons with narrow applications don't move unless a deck archetype breaks out around them, so don't expect the number to change.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.