Long Road Home
Instant
Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eldritch Moon
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #9952
Long Road Home blinks a creature out and returns it with a +1/+1 counter at end of turn — protection, stat boost, and trigger reset on a single instant for two mana. The cost is the one-turn delay: whatever you're saving won't be back until your end step, so it can't answer a board wipe mid-combat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year cares about counters entering and leaving creatures, so Long Road Home's guaranteed +1/+1 counter on return feeds her engine while also serving as cheap interaction against removal or exile-based sweepers.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Long Road Home earns its slot as a flexible instant that protects a key piece, resets enter-the-battlefield triggers, and drops a counter — three functions at instant speed for two mana. The one-turn blink delay matters less in a multiplayer format where your turn comes back around quickly. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes against a tighter field of protection spells where the delayed return can simply lose the game; it sees fringe play in blink-value shells but isn't a staple. Legacy has better options at the same cost. Oathbreaker players can leverage it the same way Commander players do, especially in planeswalker-adjacent creature builds that want repeated ETB value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Long Road Home is deep bulk — grab a playset for less than the shipping cost of a single premium spell. Bulk commons and uncommons with genuine utility tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency to stockpile and no price upside to chase.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.