Fates' Reversal
Sorcery
Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #11407
Fates' Reversal puts a creature from your graveyard directly onto the battlefield — no mana cost, no summoning sickness clause — for two mana at instant speed. In Sefris of the Hidden Ways decks, that's a triggered dungeon completion waiting to happen on the end step before your turn; anywhere else, it's a clean two-mana reanimation spell with no strings attached.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Sefris of the Hidden Ways triggers whenever a creature enters from your graveyard, so Fates' Reversal doubles as both a reanimation spell and a free dungeon advancement — at instant speed, you can fire it on an opponent's end step and untap with the trigger already on the stack.
Acererak the Archlich
Acererak the Archlich wants to hit the graveyard and come back repeatedly, and Fates' Reversal is one of the cheapest ways to pull that loop off — two mana to reanimate Acererak at instant speed keeps the dungeon engine running without telegraphing it at sorcery speed.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Fates' Reversal is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card. In eternal formats like Legacy and Vintage, two mana to reanimate a single creature at instant speed is eclipsed by faster, more powerful options with fewer restrictions. Pauper is where Fates' Reversal has the most theoretical crossover appeal outside Commander, since common-legal reanimation is scarce, but the lack of a damage floor or card selection attached keeps it fringe there too. Commander is its home: singleton format, graveyard synergy commanders, and a slower clock all make a two-mana instant-speed reanimation spell punching above its weight class.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Fates' Reversal is deep bulk — a quarter-bin pickup that won't stress any budget. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price tier rarely move unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so expect it to stay cheap and easy to acquire for the foreseeable future.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.