Guff Rewrites History
Instant
For each player, choose target nonenchantment, nonland permanent that player controls. Those permanents' owners shuffle them into their libraries. Each player who controlled one of those permanents exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player may cast the nonland card they exiled without paying its mana cost.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $3.55
- EDHREC rank
- #4229
Guff Rewrites History resets the entire non-land permanent count to zero across all players and draws everyone a fistful of cards equal to what they lost — a chaos reset button that refills your hand as it wipes the board. The cost is real: you're handing opponents cards too, and decks that rebuild faster than you will punish the symmetry. Run it when your commander, like Ian Malcolm, Chaotician, profits specifically from the chaos trigger and the mass card draw rather than from maintaining a board state.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician is in 44% of decks because Guff Rewrites History is exactly the kind of high-variance, table-wide effect his ability wants — the mass exile and redraw fuels chaos triggers and refills your hand while his passive turns the unpredictability into advantage.
Commodore Guff
Commodore Guff appears in 36% of lists because Guff Rewrites History is nominally flavored for him and his planeswalker-tribal shell can leverage the sudden hand refill to deploy threats faster than opponents who lost creature boards.
Rocco, Street Chef
Rocco, Street Chef shows up in 28% of builds because Guff Rewrites History pairs with food and treasure token strategies that survive the non-land reset better than opponents relying on creature synergies, letting Rocco reload from the fresh hand.
Norin the Wary
Norin the Wary runs Guff Rewrites History in about 17% of decks because Norin himself exiles at the start of combat and dodges the symmetrical wipe entirely, leaving opponents topdeck-racing while Norin's trigger-based engines keep firing.
The Lord of Pain
The Lord of Pain includes Guff Rewrites History in roughly 16% of lists because the mass card draw pushes opponents to draw more cards, directly feeding the life-loss triggers that are The Lord of Pain's primary win condition.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Guff Rewrites History — the effect scales with four players, turning a single spell into a table-wide reset that can generate a dozen or more cards across all seats and swing momentum dramatically. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no meaningful play; the formats move too fast and deliberately for a six-mana sorcery that hands opponents resources. Oathbreaker is the only other format where it has any realistic niche, and only in shells designed to abuse the symmetrical draw before opponents can act on it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.55 cheap tier
At $3.55, Guff Rewrites History sits in the cheap tier — accessible enough to slot into any budget build without deliberation. The price reflects solid casual demand without the spike risk of a staple, so it's a stable buy rather than a card chasing hype.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.