Diabolic Servitude
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment dies, exile it and return this enchantment to its owner's hand.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14735
Diabolic Servitude reanimates any creature from your graveyard and replaces itself in hand when that creature dies, giving you a recursive loop rather than a one-shot effect. Four mana is the honest cost for that engine, and in the right shell it earns every pip.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Diabolic Servitude is a Commander card through and through — its value compounds over a long game where creatures cycle through the graveyard multiple times, and the singleton format means you want every recursive piece you can find. In Legacy and Vintage, four mana for a conditional reanimation enchantment is far too slow against formats that close games on turn one or two, and it sees no meaningful play in either. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons as Commander: longer games, graveyard synergies matter, and the replacement trigger turns removal into card advantage rather than a tempo loss.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data isn't available for Diabolic Servitude, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Historically it has been a bulk rare, and given its narrow Commander-only appeal, it's almost certainly a cheap pickup if you have the right deck for it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.