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Death's Oasis

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, mill two cards. Then return a creature card with lesser mana value than the creature that died from your graveyard to your hand.
{1}, Sacrifice this enchantment: You gain life equal to the greatest mana value among creatures you control.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{W}{B}{G}
Color identity
BGW
Rarity
rare
Set
Magic Online Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#14680
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Death's Oasis card art
Death's Oasis turns every creature death into a free mill-three and a potential hand refill — meaningful card advantage stapled to a three-mana enchantment that costs nothing to maintain. The catch is the self-mill clause: you're feeding your own graveyard, which is a feature in the right deck and a liability in the wrong one, and Deathrender decks or Nethroi, Apex of Death lists are exactly the right ones.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Nethroi, Apex of Death

Nethroi, Apex of Death

25.1% of decks · synergy 0.23

Nethroi, Apex of Death wants a stocked graveyard of zero-power creatures to reanimate in bulk, and Death's Oasis mills three on every creature death while simultaneously pitching threats into the bin — the two cards form a self-filling engine that makes Nethroi's mutate trigger consistently explosive.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Death's Oasis is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it only shows up in Commander. The three-mana enchantment is too slow and too low-impact for Legacy and Vintage, where the graveyard payoffs are faster and the competition for enchantment slots is brutal. Modern and Pioneer have faster graveyard synergies that either don't need the mill or already have better card-advantage engines. Commander is where Death's Oasis earns its slot — in a 100-card singleton format with recurring creature deaths and graveyard-based win conditions, the incremental advantage compounds quickly enough to matter.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Price data for Death's Oasis isn't currently available through this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market price before buying. Given its narrow Commander niche — primarily Nethroi, Apex of Death and similar graveyard-value builds — it tends to stay affordable, and there's no compelling reason to rush a purchase unless you're building the deck now.

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