Funeral Rites
Sorcery
You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then mill two cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #10126
Funeral Rites mills five cards and nets two mana at instant speed — that's a lot of action for a single black mana if your deck cares about the graveyard. Syr Konrad, the Grim turns every one of those milled creatures into a drain trigger, making this a ritual and a damage source stapled together.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Every creature Funeral Rites dumps into the graveyard pings each opponent for one, and the two black mana it generates can feed right back into Konrad's activated ability to keep the engine churning.
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 |
In Commander, Funeral Rites is a role-player in graveyard-centric black decks — the combination of self-mill, mana generation, and instant speed is genuinely hard to find on one card at this cost. Pauper is where it has the most competitive potential, slotting into reanimator or dredge-adjacent shells that want both the mana and the graveyard density. In Modern and Pioneer, the rate isn't good enough to compete with faster graveyard enablers that don't ask you to spend a card, so it stays on the fringe. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it given the power level of legal alternatives. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander — valuable in the right graveyard build, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Funeral Rites is firmly bulk, and that price reflects its narrow role rather than any lack of power in the right deck. It won't appreciate meaningfully, but there's no reason to pay more than a quarter for it either — grab it out of a bulk bin.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.