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Deputy of Acquittals

Creature — Human Wizard

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
common
Set
Ravnica Remastered
Price
$0.11
EDHREC rank
#16784
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Deputy of Acquittals card art
Deputy of Acquittals is a flash 2/2 that bounces one of your creatures back to hand when it enters — a flicker trigger on a body, not a spell. The cost is real: you're spending two mana and a card to reuse an ETB, so it only earns its slot when paired with something like Aluren to chain free casts or a commander like Katilda and Lier that generates value from the bounce itself.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Katilda and Lier

Katilda and Lier

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.24

Katilda and Lier copies instants and sorceries cast from the graveyard, and Deputy of Acquittals feeds that engine by bouncing key pieces back to hand while representing a free instant-speed body — the loop between them generates enough card advantage to close games.

02
Ephara, God of the Polis

Ephara, God of the Polis

16.1% of decks · synergy 0.16

Ephara, God of the Polis draws a card on each opponent's upkeep if you put a creature into play on their turn, and Deputy of Acquittals does exactly that — flash in at end of turn, bounce a creature, replay it on your turn for a second trigger, and suddenly one card becomes two or three draws.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Deputy of Acquittals does its best work: ETB-heavy blue-white decks run it as a repeatable bounce engine, and it plays well at instant speed on opponents' turns when Ephara, God of the Polis is watching. In Pauper it sees fringe play in flicker and blink shells, where common-quality ETBs are good enough to make the bounce worthwhile. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have access to it, but the raw rate doesn't compete with the format staples in those environments — Deputy of Acquittals finds its niche in multiplayer formats where incremental value compounds over a long game.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.11 bulk tier

At $0.11, Deputy of Acquittals is deep bulk — easy to pick up in any common box or throw into an order as filler. The price is stable because demand is narrow and consistent rather than spiking, so there's no urgency to buy in bulk.

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