Macabre Mockery
Instant
Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #16751
Macabre Mockery steals a creature from an opponent's graveyard, gives it haste, and swings it right back — all at instant speed for four mana. The catch is the end-of-turn exile clause, which limits the upside in most decks but becomes irrelevant the moment Obeka, Brute Chronologist is on the battlefield.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Obeka, Brute Chronologist
Obeka, Brute Chronologist's ability to end the turn before cleanup fires turns Macabre Mockery into a permanent theft — you attack with the stolen creature, Obeka ends the turn, and the exile trigger never resolves.
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 |
Macabre Mockery is a Commander card through and through — the effect scales with the power level of opponents' graveyards, which in multiplayer means you're almost always finding something worth swinging. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's simply too slow and too conditional; four mana at instant speed for a single attacker doesn't compete with what those formats are doing at that point in the curve. Oathbreaker gives it a home only in graveyard-heavy metas where the haste clause closes a game that same turn.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Macabre Mockery is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up out of a dollar box without thinking twice. Bulk rarely appreciates, but this one doesn't need to: the price is already low enough that running a copy in any Grixis graveyard or theft build costs essentially nothing.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.