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Echo of Eons

Sorcery

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.
Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Mystery Booster 2
Price
$10.99
EDHREC rank
#2658
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Echo of Eons card art
Echo of Eons resets every player's hand to seven — a full-table Timetwister effect that buries opponents in symmetrical chaos while you exploit the refill harder than they do. The six-mana cast is just a fallback; the real play is flashbacking it for three mana off a discarded copy, making Heliod, the Radiant Dawn's graveyard recursion and Nekusar, the Mindrazer's wheel punishment the natural homes for this card.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

38.8% of decks · synergy 0.37

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn can return Echo of Eons from the graveyard to hand, letting you replay the flashback loop rather than treating the discard as a one-shot — that recursion engine is the reason the card appears in nearly 39% of Heliod lists.

02

Ral, Monsoon Mage

37.3% of decks · synergy 0.34

Ral, Monsoon Mage rewards casting multiple spells in a turn, and an Echo of Eons flashback that refills your hand immediately fuels the next chain of instants and sorceries to trigger Ral's damage output.

03
Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

33.4% of decks · synergy 0.30

Nekusar, the Mindrazer turns every card drawn by any player into a damage trigger, so Echo of Eons wheeling all seven players into fresh seven-card hands translates to a sudden burst of 49-plus damage spread across the table.

04
The Locust God

The Locust God

25.7% of decks · synergy 0.23

The Locust God converts each drawn card into a 1/1 flying Insect token, and Echo of Eons wheeling up to seven cards for every opponent means you can flood the board with insects off a single flashback.

05
Xyris, the Writhing Storm

Xyris, the Writhing Storm

23.7% of decks · synergy 0.21

Xyris, the Writhing Storm creates Snake tokens whenever opponents draw cards outside their draw step, so Echo of Eons — which forces opponents to draw up to seven — can generate a lethal token swarm in a single activation.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the undisputed home for Echo of Eons: four opponents means the wheel's symmetry still nets you a massive card-quality advantage when your deck is built to abuse it, and the three-mana flashback cost is low enough to chain into a combo turn. In Legacy, Echo of Eons sees genuine play in storm shells that pitch it to Lion's Eye Diamond and immediately flash it back for three, restoring the hand after going hellbent — a tight, powerful role in a format that can actually execute it. Modern doesn't have the same storm infrastructure, so Echo of Eons sits closer to a fringe role there, playable but rarely the best option. Vintage has access to every broken card in the game, which keeps Echo of Eons honest — it's useful but competing with Timetwister itself. Oathbreaker is a legal home where the wheel effect can dominate, especially with a draw-punishing planeswalker as your commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Reforge the Soul does the same full-table seven-card wheel for five mana at sorcery speed and costs under $1, making it the most direct budget replacement for Echo of Eons in shells that don't need the flashback synergy. Windfall is even cheaper and scales to hand sizes rather than a flat seven, which sometimes draws you more cards in the mid-game — you lose the graveyard-interaction angle that makes Echo of Eons worth the premium, but either card handles the basic wheel role at a fraction of the price.

Price Context

Current price

$10.99 mid tier

At $10.99, Echo of Eons sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that it's accessible for most serious Commander budgets. It holds that price because the Legacy storm demand keeps a floor under it that purely Commander-driven cards don't enjoy.

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