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Last Chance

Sorcery

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Dominaria Remastered
Price
$4.38
EDHREC rank
#4562
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Last Chance card art
Last Chance gives you an extra turn for one mana — the cheapest rate on that effect in the game — and then kills you at the start of that turn's end step unless you can dodge the losing condition. Obeka, Brute Chronologist ends that end step on command, wiping the death trigger entirely, and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker lines that need one final activation before the game resets treat it as a straight extra turn with no downside.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Obeka, Brute Chronologist

Obeka, Brute Chronologist

68.0% of decks · synergy 0.65

Obeka, Brute Chronologist is the natural home for Last Chance because her ability to end the turn on demand strips the 'you lose' trigger before it ever resolves, turning a conditional extra turn into a free one at one mana.

02
Rograkh, Son of RohgahhSilas Renn, Seeker Adept

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

59.8% of decks · synergy 0.57

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept runs Last Chance as part of a suite of extra-turn spells that fuel artifact-based storm and combat-damage payoffs, where the deck expects to win inside that extra turn and treats the death clause as irrelevant.

03
Knuckles the Echidna

Knuckles the Echidna

13.1% of decks · synergy 0.12

Knuckles the Echidna picks up Last Chance to squeeze out one more attack step with a buffed, evasive threat, gambling that lethal damage lands before the end step arrives.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Last Chance sees virtually all of its play in Commander, where Obeka, Brute Chronologist and similar end-step manipulation make the drawback trivially ignorable. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but has never found a competitive home — one extra turn at one mana sounds attractive, but the certain loss on cleanup makes it unplayable in those formats without a dedicated safety valve, and those formats have better extra-turn options without the rider. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Last Chance occasionally shows up, again in shells built specifically to negate the losing condition.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.38 cheap tier

At $4.38, Last Chance sits at the high end of the cheap tier, driven almost entirely by Commander demand from Obeka builds. It's a narrow enough card that the price is unlikely to climb further without a new commander that exploits end-step manipulation, but it's also not going to crater — the Obeka player base is real and consistent.

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