Ghostway
Instant
Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered
- Price
- $2.47
- EDHREC rank
- #3248
Ghostway saves your entire board from a wrath for three mana, and every creature comes back with its enters-the-battlefield trigger firing fresh. In any white deck built around ETB value, this is an auto-include — Preston, the Vanisher decks in particular treat it as a combo piece as much as a protection spell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Preston, the Vanisher
Preston, the Vanisher blinks nontoken creatures, so when Ghostway returns your whole board, Preston generates a Illusion token for every creature that re-enters — turning a protection spell into a board-doubling engine at instant speed.
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine sacrifices Angels to generate mana and life, and Ghostway refills the board at end of turn, letting the deck reset its sacrifice fodder while dodging whatever removal prompted the blink in the first place.
Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd already wants to flicker creatures repeatedly for value, and Ghostway gives that strategy a mass-blink safety valve — every creature in play gets the ETB treatment at once rather than one at a time.
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines doubles every ETB trigger, so Ghostway under her turns a one-for-one blink into a two-for-one on every single creature that returns — a board reset that refills twice as fast.
Roon of the Hidden Realm
Roon of the Hidden Realm is built on extracting maximum value from enters-the-battlefield effects, and Ghostway acts as a repeatable mass-blink that dodges board wipes while firing every ETB trigger Roon has assembled across the game.
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 Ghostway actually lives — ETB-value creature decks are everywhere in the format, and a three-mana instant that saves your board from a wrath while replaying every trigger is exactly the kind of card that wins games. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but essentially invisible; those formats move too fast and at too low a curve for a three-mana do-nothing at instant speed to matter. Modern has enough blink synergy in principle, but Ghostway has never broken through there competitively — the lack of Pioneer and Standard legality means the card's player base is almost entirely Commander, where it earns every slot it occupies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.47 cheap tier
At $2.47, Ghostway sits comfortably in the cheap tier — accessible enough that there's no budget excuse to skip it in any white ETB deck. Demand is steady given how many Commander archetypes want it, so don't expect the price to drop; if anything, continued printings of ETB-centric commanders will keep demand floor firm.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.