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Idol of Endurance

Artifact

When this artifact enters, exile all creature cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard until this artifact leaves the battlefield.
{1}{W}, {T}: Until end of turn, you may cast a creature spell from among cards exiled with this artifact without paying its mana cost.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Core Set 2021
Price
$0.27
EDHREC rank
#21821
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Idol of Endurance card art
Idol of Endurance enters the battlefield and immediately exiles your graveyard creatures with mana value 3 or less, then lets you cast them for their mana costs — a free rebuy engine on a three-mana artifact that scales with every creature in your bin. The catch is that it only recurs what was already in the yard at the moment it arrived, so pairing it with sacrifice outlets like Goblin Welder to keep feeding the exile zone is where it earns its slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Idol of Endurance belongs — 100-card singletons mean your graveyard fills up fast, and any deck running 15-plus creatures with mana value 3 or less can expect Idol to exile a handful of them on arrival. Outside Commander, the formats it's legal in — Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage — have faster clocks and graveyard interaction that makes a three-mana artifact with a one-shot delayed payoff far too slow to see competitive play. Treat it as a Commander-exclusive card that happens to be technically legal elsewhere.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.27 bulk tier

At $0.27, Idol of Endurance is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar bin and forget you spent anything. Demand stays low enough that the price is unlikely to spike unless a prominent creature-graveyard commander pushes it into the spotlight, but at this price it's a zero-risk inclusion for any deck that qualifies.

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