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Laid to Rest

Enchantment

Whenever a Human you control dies, draw a card.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, you gain 2 life.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#11187
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Laid to Rest card art
Laid to Rest turns every Human death into a card draw trigger and a +1/+1 counter — two engines stapled onto one enchantment for four mana. Commanders like Kyler, Sigardian Emissary and The Locust God illustrate the two poles this card fits: tribal synergy that scales with counters, and pure value generation that buries opponents in cards.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kyler, Sigardian Emissary

Kyler, Sigardian Emissary

38.1% of decks · synergy 0.36

Kyler, Sigardian Emissary already puts +1/+1 counters on every Human you control, and Laid to Rest doubles down by adding a counter each time one dies — meaning attrition works in your favor while refilling your hand to replace whatever was lost.

02
Katilda, Dawnhart Prime

Katilda, Dawnhart Prime

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.33

Katilda, Dawnhart Prime runs a dense Human tribal shell where creatures die frequently, and Laid to Rest converts that board churn into card advantage and a growing counter accumulation without requiring any extra setup.

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

Laid to Rest is Commander's card — the pay-off only compounds over a long game with a large creature count, and the 99-card singleton format gives it exactly the tribal density and multi-opponent attrition it needs to shine. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but practically absent: four mana for a do-nothing-until-a-creature-dies enchantment is too slow and too conditional when removal is cheap and games end by turn four or five. Legacy and Vintage have the same speed problem, and neither format is running Human tribal value engines. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, but the 60-card constraint makes consistent payoff harder to guarantee.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Laid to Rest is deep bulk — you're paying a quarter-bin price for a card that overperforms in the right Commander shell. Bulk rares rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, but at this price there's no reason not to own a copy if you're building Humans.

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