Grim Reaper's Sprint
Enchantment — Aura
Morbid — This spell costs 
less to cast if a creature died this turn.
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, untap each creature you control. If it's your main phase, there is an additional combat phase after this phase.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has haste.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $1.86
- EDHREC rank
- #4422
Grim Reaper's Sprint puts your entire graveyard onto the battlefield — every creature, every artifact, all at once — for a single attack step's worth of effort. The cost is steep in the abstract, but Dogmeat, Ever Loyal decks load the yard fast enough that this card ends games rather than just swings momentum.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal mills aggressively through the Scavenge trigger, so Grim Reaper's Sprint routinely reanimates ten or more permanents off a single attack — it's the deck's primary game-ending threat rather than a backup plan.
Preston Garvey, Minuteman
Preston Garvey, Minuteman generates Minuteman tokens whenever creatures enter, so Grim Reaper's Sprint's mass reanimation trigger turns one attack into a board-wide flood that immediately snowballs into even more tokens.
Three Dog, Galaxy News DJ
Three Dog, Galaxy News DJ rewards having large numbers of creatures enter and attack, and Grim Reaper's Sprint delivers both conditions simultaneously — the entire graveyard arrives ready to swing.
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers care about combat and high power on the board, and Grim Reaper's Sprint's mass reanimation can rebuild a depleted battlefield into a lethal attack in a single turn.
Stangg, Echo Warrior
Stangg, Echo Warrior copies spells and rewards going wide in Gruul; Grim Reaper's Sprint provides the sudden board-refill that lets those copied threats immediately press an advantage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Grim Reaper's Sprint is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it meaningfully sees play. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more consistent reanimation routes — Reanimate, Animate Dead, Shallow Grave — that don't require attacking first, so Grim Reaper's Sprint doesn't compete there. In Commander, the attack requirement is almost irrelevant when graveyard-filling commanders like Dogmeat, Ever Loyal have already done the setup work, and the multiplayer format gives the card time to operate. Oathbreaker is legal but the 20-life format moves too quickly for a setup-dependent card like this to shine consistently.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.86 cheap tier
At $1.86, Grim Reaper's Sprint sits in budget-include territory — cheap enough that it's a no-debate purchase for any Fallout Commander deck that wants it. It's a set-specific card with a narrow home, so price stability depends entirely on continued demand from Dogmeat, Ever Loyal and adjacent commanders rather than any broad format adoption.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
- Preston Garvey, Minuteman
- Three Dog, Galaxy News DJ
- Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
- Stangg, Echo Warrior
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.