Grave Exchange
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #24582
Grave Exchange returns a creature from your graveyard to hand and makes an opponent sacrifice a creature — two-for-one board impact on a single five-mana sorcery. The cost is real: sorcery speed at five mana is slow, and dedicated reanimator shells will almost always find a faster line.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Grave Exchange occupies a narrow lane — it earns a slot when you need redundant sacrifice pressure alongside recursion, typically in aristocrats or reanimator lists that care about the loop more than the speed. In Pauper, the card is legal and the effect is above the baseline for common-slot removal, though five mana is a steep ask in a format that rewards efficiency. Legacy and Vintage have access to far faster graveyard engines, so Grave Exchange never sees play there. Outside of Commander and Pauper, it simply doesn't compete.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Grave Exchange is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the effect. Bulk rarely moves on price unless a new commander pushes demand, and nothing about this card's effect profile suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.