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God-Pharaoh's Gift

Artifact

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. It gains haste until end of turn.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{7}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#8802
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God-Pharaoh's Gift card art
God-Pharaoh's Gift turns your graveyard into a repeating token engine — every end step you get a 4/4 with an enters-the-battlefield trigger stapled on, which is a punishing clock opponents have to answer immediately. Seven mana is steep, but commanders like Ghired, Conclave Exile that already want large tokens in play make the cost feel like a bargain by turn five or six.

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

Commander is where God-Pharaoh's Gift does its best work — the format's longer games give you time to hit seven mana, and graveyard-stacking strategies built around reanimation or self-mill make the activation window predictable rather than aspirational. In Pioneer it saw real play as the centerpiece of Gate to the Afterlife combo shells, where the seven-mana cost became irrelevant because you never intended to cast it fair. Legacy and Vintage have enough raw power floating around that a seven-mana artifact without immediate protection is too slow to compete seriously. Modern sits in the middle: the card exists there, but faster combo and interaction density make the fair version unplayable and the combo version a niche pick at best.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate on God-Pharaoh's Gift. Historically it's floated in the $1–4 range outside of Pioneer spikes, making it an easy pickup if you're building a graveyard or token shell in Commander.

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