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Endurance

Creature — Elemental Incarnation

Flash
Reach
When this creature enters, up to one target player puts all the cards from their graveyard on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Evoke—Exile a green card from your hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Modern Horizons 2 Timeshifts
Price
$9.12
EDHREC rank
#1380
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Endurance card art
Endurance lands as a 3/4 reach with flash for three mana, resets any graveyard on entry, and can be pitched for free to do the same job at instant speed — that's an absurd density of function for a single card slot. It earns a spot in virtually any green deck that can afford it, and commanders like Ashling, the Limitless and Wild Pair squeeze even more out of it by treating it as an on-demand engine piece.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ashling, the Limitless

Ashling, the Limitless

68.0% of decks · synergy 0.65

Ashling, the Limitless tutors creatures with matching power or toughness directly onto the battlefield, and Endurance's 3/4 body slots cleanly into that fetch chain while also resetting graveyards that opponents are building toward a win — doing double duty as both a combo piece and disruption in the same 68% of Ashling decks.

02
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

48.9% of decks · synergy 0.44

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy runs Endurance for the same reason it runs every efficient green creature: the body generates mana through nonland sources, and the graveyard-reset ability is free insurance against reanimator strategies that would otherwise race past Kinnan's slower engine.

03
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.36

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods mills its controller's library as a feature, and Endurance answers the obvious problem — opponents can't accumulate their own graveyard resources while Lumra is churning, because Endurance wipes any target yard the moment it becomes a threat.

04
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

34.7% of decks · synergy 0.30

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard fetches creatures by converted mana cost, and Endurance at three mana is one of the strongest verse-three targets in mono-green — a flash 3/4 that answers graveyard strategies the moment Yisan activates is nearly impossible to replicate at that cost.

05
Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Tayam, Luminous Enigma

22.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Tayam, Luminous Enigma operates out of the graveyard itself, so Endurance pulls dual duty: it protects Tayam's own engine from exile effects while letting the deck recycle Endurance back through Tayam's ability after it's been used.

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

In Commander, Endurance is one of the most format-warping green creatures printed in years — graveyard strategies are everywhere, counterspells don't reliably stop them, and a free-to-pitch instant-speed answer that also leaves a relevant body is exactly what green needed. In Legacy, it occupies a similar role as a main-deck hate piece that doesn't cost a card when you hold it in hand, and it's common in Elves and other creature-based strategies that want graveyard disruption without dedicating a spell slot. Modern sees Endurance as a sideboard staple against Dredge, Living End, and Goryo's Vengeance — the free pitch mode specifically lets you hold up interaction without tapping out. Vintage and Oathbreaker are legal but Endurance's graveyard reset is less critical in a format where graveyard hate has steeper competition and faster clocks.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Scavenging Ooze does the closest job in a single card — it eats graveyards incrementally, grows as it does, and costs under a dollar — but it requires mana activation every step of the way, which means it's vulnerable to instant-speed combos that Endurance stops for free. Faerie Macabre is the closest match for the free-pitch mode specifically, handling the same instant-speed reset at no mana cost, though it's a one-shot effect with no body that sticks around afterward.

Price Context

Current price

$9.12 mid tier

At $9.12, Endurance sits in the mid-tier range — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion but not a format-defining financial barrier the way some staples are. Given how broadly it applies across green Commander, Legacy, and Modern, and how few cards do anything close to what it does, that price is justified and unlikely to crater as long as graveyard strategies remain prevalent.

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