March from the Tomb
Sorcery
Return any number of target Ally creature cards with total mana value 8 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #17561
March from the Tomb returns up to five Ally creatures from your graveyard to the battlefield — that's a potential game-ending board refill for five mana at sorcery speed. The tribal restriction is real, but in any dedicated Ally deck it reads closer to a one-sided Living Death.
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 |
March from the Tomb is a Commander card through and through — the five-target ceiling only matters when you have five Allies in the graveyard, which takes the game length Commander naturally provides. In Modern and Legacy, sorcery-speed mass recursion at five mana is too slow for formats where the game ends on turn three or four, and the Ally type restriction narrows it further since tribal Ally strategies don't compete at those power levels. Pioneer is technically legal but the same logic applies: March from the Tomb has no realistic home there. Stick to Commander, specifically 60-card-plus Ally tribal builds where the graveyard fills naturally and a single resolved spell can rebuild a demolished board.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, March from the Tomb is pure bulk — pick it up in any common-bin or cheap singles order without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a pushed Ally commander drives a sudden spike in the archetype.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.