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Graveshifter

Creature — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#2853
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Graveshifter card art
Graveshifter enters and returns any creature card from your graveyard to your hand — no mana cost restriction, just a 2/2 body stapled to unconditional recursion for three mana. Commanders like Ashling, the Limitless and Disa the Restless that churn through creatures and need specific pieces back fast treat this as a reliable, repeatable engine rather than a one-off.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Disa the Restless

Disa the Restless

65.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

Disa the Restless is the premier home for Graveshifter — Disa's Lhurgoyf tokens and graveyard-dependent gameplan mean you're constantly refueling, and Graveshifter's enters-the-battlefield trigger lets you loop key threats back into hand on demand.

03
Grist, the Hunger Tide

Grist, the Hunger Tide

21.5% of decks · synergy 0.20

Grist, the Hunger Tide mills creatures aggressively, and Graveshifter as an Insect changeling fits the tribal count while also rescuing any high-value bug or non-bug creature Grist dumped in the process.

05
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos proliferates and generates Phyrexian tokens at a high rate, and Graveshifter provides a recurrable threat-recovery tool that keeps pressure up after board wipes without demanding extra mana investment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Graveshifter does its best work — singleton graveyard strategies frequently need a specific creature back, and a three-mana 2/2 that fetches any creature card regardless of cost is a repeatable asset in blink and ETB shells. In Modern and Pioneer, unconditional creature recursion at three mana competes with faster, more efficient options and rarely earns a maindeck slot outside of dedicated reanimator synergies. Legacy and Vintage have access to so many cheaper recursion tools that Graveshifter is outclassed entirely in those formats. Standard is the one format where the card's simplicity is an asset — if the graveyard environment supports it, the low floor of a 2/2 with upside is playable, though it's not a format staple.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Graveshifter is deep bulk — it costs less than the sleeve it goes in, so there's no financial barrier to testing it. Bulk uncommons with genuine Commander utility occasionally tick up after a breakout list, but at this price, you're buying it to play it, not to hold it.

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