Goryo's Vengeance
Instant — Arcane
Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Splice onto Arcane 
(As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #11460
Goryo's Vengeance drops a legendary creature from your graveyard onto the battlefield with haste for two mana — the exile clause at end of turn is the cost, and in the right shell it barely matters. Commanders like Obeka, Brute Chronologist can skip the end step entirely, and Cormela, Glamour Thief refunds the spell's mana when she dies, making the whole package self-fueling.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Obeka, Brute Chronologist
Obeka, Brute Chronologist negates the exile clause on Goryo's Vengeance outright — end the turn before cleanup triggers and your reanimation target stays in play indefinitely, turning a one-shot trick into a permanent threat.
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 |
In Modern, Goryo's Vengeance is the engine of one of the format's most explosive combo decks, typically pairing with Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or Emrakul to generate an immediate game-winning trigger the turn it resolves. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, cheaper reanimation like Reanimate and Animate Dead, so Goryo's Vengeance occupies a narrower role there — its instant speed is the selling point when the graveyard gets loaded at the end of an opponent's turn. In Commander, Goryo's Vengeance shines in dedicated graveyard builds where the exile clause is either dodged or irrelevant, but the legendary restriction is a real constraint — it misses every non-legendary threat in the format, which limits its utility outside purpose-built lists.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Cormela, Glamour ThiefGoryo's VengeanceAshnod's Altar
Infinite blue mana that can only be spent to cast instant and sorcery spells; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite red mana that can only be spent to cast instant and sorcery spells; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Cormela, Glamour ThiefGoryo's VengeancePhyrexian Altar
Infinite blue mana that can only be spent to cast instant and sorcery spells; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite red mana that can only be spent to cast instant and sorcery spells; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Current price
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Pricing data isn't available in the current context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number — Goryo's Vengeance has historically commanded a premium given its Modern combo relevance. If you're picking it up for Commander alone, verify the price reflects what you're actually getting out of the card in a singleton, legendary-only context.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.