Deadbridge Chant
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #3130
Deadbridge Chant hits the table and immediately starts rebuilding your graveyard into a hand — ten cards milled on entry, then a free recursive permanent every upkeep for as long as it survives. The cost is real: six mana is a significant ask, and a single Tormod's Crypt in response to the trigger wipes the engine before you see a single return, so Winter, Cynical Opportunist and other graveyard-matters commanders are the only homes where it earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Winter, Cynical Opportunist
Winter, Cynical Opportunist runs Deadbridge Chant as a self-fueling engine — the mill-ten on entry loads the graveyard that Winter, Cynical Opportunist taxes opponents for interacting with, and the free upkeep recursion generates continuous value without spending a card.
Kathril, Aspect Warper
Kathril, Aspect Warper needs keyword-rich creatures in the graveyard, and Deadbridge Chant delivers ten cards there immediately — then keeps pulling targets back to hand so Kathril, Aspect Warper can keep loading up counters across multiple turns.
Disa the Restless
Disa the Restless wants the graveyard stocked and permanently accessible, and Deadbridge Chant's upkeep trigger is a repeating threat that syncs cleanly with what Disa the Restless is already trying to do — keep permanents cycling through the bin.
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord benefits from Deadbridge Chant refueling the creatures-in-graveyard count that powers his sacrifice ability, while the free recursion lets you re-establish big threats after using them as sacrifice fodder.
The Mycotyrant
The Mycotyrant scales on cards entering from the graveyard, so Deadbridge Chant's guaranteed upkeep recursion is a low-cost way to keep triggering that engine every turn without drawing additional cards.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Deadbridge Chant is a Commander card — full stop. The six-mana cost and slow upkeep payoff are liabilities in any format where games end before the engine spins up, and competitive Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer decks have no interest in a sorcery-speed enchantment that doesn't affect the board the turn it resolves. In those sixty-card formats it's technically legal but functionally unplayable. Commander is the one context where the combination of a longer game, graveyard synergy commanders, and repeated free recursion makes Deadbridge Chant a legitimate engine piece rather than a liability.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Deadbridge ChantTormod's CryptkeeperWalk the Aeons
Infinite turns; Lock
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Deadbridge ChantTormod's CryptkeeperCapture of Jingzhou
Infinite turns; Lock
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Deadbridge ChantTormod's CryptkeeperTemporal Manipulation
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Deadbridge Chant is bulk — straightforward to acquire and not under any price pressure given its narrow Commander-only application. It won't appreciate meaningfully, but for the decks that want it, there's no reason not to own a copy.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.