Evangelize
Sorcery
Buyback 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Gain control of target creature of an opponent's choice they control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.45
- EDHREC rank
- #23928
Evangelize steals a creature from an opponent's hand — permanently — for five mana, no combat required. The buyback cost is steep, but the effect is clean: you take something, they lose it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Evangelize finds its niche, specifically in white-heavy decks that want political tools or incremental hand disruption against creature-combo opponents. The buyback cost of six additional mana is genuinely prohibitive at typical Commander tables, so treat it as a one-shot effect unless you're running a dedicated ramp engine. In Legacy and Vintage, Evangelize is too slow and too narrow — five mana for a conditional discard effect doesn't compete. Modern has better options at lower costs, and Evangelize sees essentially no play there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.45 bulk tier
At $0.45, Evangelize is deep bulk — easy to pick up, easy to forget. It's unlikely to appreciate given how rarely it sees serious play, but at that price, testing it costs nothing.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.