Manifest Dread
Sorcery
Manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #14770
Manifest Dread puts two face-down 2/2s onto the battlefield and draws you a card — three things on one sorcery for three mana. Kitsa, Otterball Elite and Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods both run it at over 44% inclusion because the manifest tokens become live ammunition the moment you have a way to turn them face up.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods triggers off every face-down creature entering and attacking, so the two manifests from Manifest Dread effectively read 'create two creatures that will each pump your whole board the moment combat starts' — that's the engine in one card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Manifest Dread is legal everywhere but lives almost entirely in Commander, where the three-for-one math matters more than raw efficiency and the card draw offsets the sorcery-speed tempo loss. In powered Constructed formats like Legacy and Vintage it's too slow — three mana at sorcery speed for 2/2s with no immediate board impact doesn't compete. Modern and Pioneer theoretically support it in tempo shells that want to flip manifested creatures, but no serious archetype has picked it up. Manifest Dread is a Commander card: build around it or don't bother.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Kitsa, Otterball EliteAshnod's AltarIntruder AlarmManifest Dread
Infinite self-mill; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite untap of all creatures
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Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Manifest Dread is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any commons box and don't think twice. Bulk rares with narrow synergy tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no ceiling worth watching.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.