Eureka

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield. Repeat this process until no one puts a card onto the battlefield.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Legends
Price
$475.49
EDHREC rank
#17882
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Eureka card art
Eureka puts every permanent from every player's hand onto the battlefield simultaneously — the table refills in one trigger, and whoever loaded up on the biggest threats wins the exchange. It's a glass cannon spell: high-ceiling, symmetrical, and absolutely backbreaking when you've stacked your hand with things your opponents can't match.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where Eureka does its best work — four players means four hands dumping onto the battlefield at once, and the player who built around the effect (Progenitus, Blightsteel Colossus, a suite of planeswalkers) wins that exchange almost every time. The symmetry is a real cost, so it rewards tight deckbuilding: you want your hand full of permanents that immediately win or lock the game, not incremental value pieces your opponents can match. In Legacy, Eureka sees play in Show and Tell-adjacent combo shells where it cheats out an Emrakul or Griselbrand as early as turn one off fast mana, functioning as a second copy of Show and Tell with more variance. Vintage is legal but Show and Tell is cheaper and faster, making Eureka a fringe inclusion at best. Outside those three formats, it simply isn't legal.

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Show and Tell is the canonical replacement — it's cheaper to cast, more consistent (each player puts in at most one permanent), and sees competitive play for the same reason Eureka does. If you want a closer functional match that lets multiple permanents enter at once, Selvala's Stampede offers a similar mass-cheat effect in green for five mana, though the randomness and creature-only restriction make it a step down from Eureka's raw power.

Price Context

Current price

$475.49 premium tier

At $475.49, Eureka sits firmly in the reserved-list premium tier — this is an original Legends printing with no reprint path, so the price reflects scarcity as much as playability. It holds value the way other reserved-list staples do, but you're paying a steep premium over functional alternatives like Show and Tell for a card that's narrower in most contexts.

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