Evolution Charm
Instant
Choose one —
• Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #7506
Evolution Charm is a two-mana instant that picks whichever of three modes your board state demands — fetch a basic, give a creature flying, or return a creature from your graveyard to hand — making it consistently useful rather than situationally good. At $0.11, the cost to run it is nearly zero, and in Riku of Many Paths decks that copy instants, the upside of doubling two different modes in a single turn pushes it from role-player to engine piece.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Riku of Many Paths
Riku of Many Paths copies instants and sorceries, and Evolution Charm's modal nature means you can grab two different modes from one copy trigger — reanimate a creature to hand while simultaneously fetching a basic or stapling flying onto an attacker, turning a cheap cantrip-adjacent spell into a two-for-one.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Evolution Charm earns its slot through pure flexibility — early game it fixes mana with a basic fetch, mid-game it reanimates a key creature you've lost, and the flying mode occasionally closes a damage race or enables a surprise attack past blockers. Pauper is where Evolution Charm has the most competitive pedigree, since common-legal graveyard recursion at two mana is genuinely scarce and the basic-land mode doubles as ramp. In Legacy and Vintage, it doesn't see meaningful play — those formats move too fast and demand more than a modal charm can provide at this rate. Modern, despite being legal, shows no real adoption for the same reason: the floor is too low when every other two-mana slot has higher peak power.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
Evolution Charm sits at $0.11, firmly bulk — pick it up in any common pile or as a throw-in on any order. Bulk commons rarely move on price, so there's no urgency and no ceiling to chase; just grab it when you need it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.