Evil Reawakened
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #8285
Evil Reawakened puts a 7/6 trampler onto the battlefield for six mana and then spends every subsequent upkeep replacing itself with something bigger — that's a closing engine, not just a threat. Sephiroth, Planet's Heir is the obvious home, but any deck that can reach six mana and wants a self-perpetuating beatdown chain should be running this.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sephiroth, Planet's Heir
Evil Reawakened slots directly into the Sephiroth, Planet's Heir gameplan — the escalating creature chain mirrors Sephiroth's own transformation payoffs, and having a guaranteed source of increasingly large bodies each upkeep means you're always progressing toward the deck's endgame even when Sephiroth gets answered.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Evil Reawakened is a Commander card through and through — six mana buys you a threat that compounds over multiple turns, which is exactly the kind of value engine that thrives in a 40-life multiplayer game. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the converted cost is prohibitive and the payoff too slow against decks that win on turns three and four. Legacy and Vintage have the mana to cast it but far more efficient ways to close a game, so it won't see play there either. Stick to Commander, where its attrition-proof design is genuinely hard to race.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Evil Reawakened is bulk, and that price is likely to hold — it's a casual Commander staple with a narrow enough home that demand stays modest. Pick up copies freely; there's no financial risk and no reason to wait.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.