Embrace Oblivion
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Destroy target creature or Spacecraft.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #12366
Embrace Oblivion exiles a creature from any graveyard and replaces it with a 4/4 Angel token — meaningful board impact at sorcery speed for three mana. It's a role-player in graveyard-hate slots, but Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar decks treat it as an engine piece rather than a sideboard answer.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar triggers off creatures entering the battlefield, so Embrace Oblivion pulls double duty — it disrupts an opponent's graveyard while immediately generating an Angel token that fuels Vondam's payoffs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Embrace Oblivion earns its slot in token-generating or graveyard-disruption builds, where the Angel token is the real payoff and the exile is a bonus. Competitive formats mostly ignore it — three mana at sorcery speed is too slow for Modern and Legacy, where dedicated hate like Nihil Spellbomb costs one and doesn't ask you to wait for a main phase. Standard and Pioneer players can run it as a budget-friendly threat-plus-answer, though the power ceiling is low. Pauper doesn't have access to it, since Embrace Oblivion is an uncommon — that's the one ceiling worth noting.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Embrace Oblivion is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought if you're sleeving a Syr Vondam list. Bulk uncommons with niche-but-real applications tend to stay at this floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.