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Gift of Immortality

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. Return this card to the battlefield attached to that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Theros
Price
$5.62
EDHREC rank
#2066
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Gift of Immortality card art
Gift of Immortality turns any creature into a recurring threat that reattaches itself every end step — the enchanted creature dies, the Aura goes to the graveyard, then both come back at end of turn. At three mana, it's cheap enough that Killian, Decisive Mentor cuts that cost to one, and it synergizes so cleanly with Sun Titan that the two cards together form a self-perpetuating engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Killian, Decisive Mentor

Killian, Decisive Mentor

81.9% of decks · synergy 0.75

Killian, Decisive Mentor reduces Gift of Immortality to a single white mana, making it trivially easy to slap onto Killian himself — now every combat or removal spell your opponents aim at him just resets the board state at end of turn.

02
Bruna, Light of Alabaster

Bruna, Light of Alabaster

48.6% of decks · synergy 0.47

Bruna, Light of Alabaster cheats auras directly onto herself when she attacks, and Gift of Immortality is one of the best she can grab — it means Bruna survives targeted removal after swinging and comes back ready to attack again next turn.

03
Eriette of the Charmed Apple

Eriette of the Charmed Apple

49.1% of decks · synergy 0.42

Eriette of the Charmed Apple wants as many auras on creatures as possible to drain opponents each upkeep, and Gift of Immortality on Eriette herself ensures she stays on the battlefield to keep the drain engine running through removal.

04
Brion Stoutarm

Brion Stoutarm

40.8% of decks · synergy 0.39

Brion Stoutarm flings his own creatures as a win condition, and Gift of Immortality on a high-power creature lets him throw it at opponents repeatedly — die, return at end of turn, throw it again next turn.

05
Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Elenda, the Dusk Rose

34.7% of decks · synergy 0.28

Elenda, the Dusk Rose grows whenever other creatures die, and Gift of Immortality creates a reliable death trigger on demand each turn cycle — letting you stack counters on Elenda while also protecting her with the attached recursion.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Gift of Immortality is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is overwhelmingly where it earns its keep. In Legacy and Vintage the three-mana investment for a conditional recursion loop is too slow when those formats are decided by turns one and two. Modern and Pioneer are closer calls — there are shells built around sacrifice and recursion where Gift of Immortality could function, but it competes with faster, more reliable protection like Selfless Spirit and hasn't broken through. Commander is its natural home: games go long, commanders are high-value targets that draw repeated removal, and the end-step recursion trigger is virtually guaranteed to fire at least once.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Fool's Demise does a similar job — it returns the enchanted creature to play under your control when it dies — but doesn't reattach itself, so you only get one loop. Unhallowed Pact is a strictly cheaper option at one black mana that recurs the creature once, though it won't match Gift of Immortality's indefinitely repeating trigger or its ability to protect your own commander across multiple removal spells.

Price Context

Current price

$5.62 mid tier

At $5.62, Gift of Immortality sits in the mid tier — affordable enough that it's not a budget hurdle, but not a throwaway include either. It's a high-demand enchantment card with a narrow mechanical niche, which keeps the price stable without much ceiling to climb.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.