Deliver Unto Evil
Sorcery
Choose up to four target cards in your graveyard. If you control a Bolas planeswalker, return those cards to your hand. Otherwise, an opponent chooses two of them. Leave the chosen cards in your graveyard and put the rest into your hand.
Exile Deliver Unto Evil.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- War of the Spark Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13370
Deliver Unto Evil returns up to four cards from your graveyard to your hand — an effect that would cost four mana at instant speed in most black spells — and it's free if an opponent controls more cards than you. The condition is easy to meet by mid-game, and the payoff is enormous: four pieces of disruption, removal, or combo fuel back in hand at no mana cost.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager forces discard, which means opponents almost always have more cards in hand than you do — Deliver Unto Evil's cost reduction triggers reliably here, letting you loop the best spells in your graveyard back into a hand that's already stripping resources from the table.
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 |
Commander is where Deliver Unto Evil earns its keep: three opponents mean someone almost always has more cards in hand, and the free cast lets you reload at instant speed without sacrificing a land drop or tapping out. In Legacy and Vintage, the card-in-hand condition is harder to guarantee against a single opponent, and those formats have faster, cheaper graveyard recursion that doesn't ask you to fall behind first. Modern and Pioneer have similar problems — the setup cost is real in a two-player race, and you're often the one empty-handed when it matters. Oathbreaker is close to Commander in function, so the same logic applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data for Deliver Unto Evil isn't available in this context — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its near-50% inclusion rate in Nicol Bolas, the Ravager decks and no close functional substitute, demand is real enough that this won't be a bulk find.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.