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Noxious Revival

Instant

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)
Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G/P}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$19.31
EDHREC rank
#608
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Noxious Revival card art
Noxious Revival puts any card from any graveyard on top of a library for zero mana — that's the whole story, and zero mana is the part that breaks it. Imprinted on an Isochron Scepter, it becomes a repeatable graveyard loop engine; in a vacuum, it's the cheapest insurance policy in the format against losing a key piece.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Etali, Primal Conqueror

43.0% of decks · synergy 0.38

Etali, Primal Conqueror attacks and exiles cards from opponents' libraries, but the real edge Noxious Revival provides is stacking the top of an opponent's library before the trigger — letting Etali repeatedly steal the most threatening spell in a graveyard rather than taking what variance offers.

02
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

37.1% of decks · synergy 0.33

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa corrupts opponents and lets you cast their exiled cards, and Noxious Revival functions as topdeck manipulation that seeds an opponent's library with something worth stealing on your next attack.

03
Storm, Force of Nature

Storm, Force of Nature

42.0% of decks · synergy 0.31

Storm, Force of Nature cares deeply about spell sequencing and storm count, and Noxious Revival costs zero — it's a free spell that ticks up the count while returning a critical ritual or payoff to hand.

04
Tevesh Szat, Doom of FoolsThrasios, Triton Hero

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero

36.6% of decks · synergy 0.29

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero runs Noxious Revival as part of compact combo infrastructure — zero-mana spells reduce the total mana needed to assemble a loop, and pairing it with Thrasios's activated ability means returned pieces can be drawn immediately.

05
Flubs, the Fool

Flubs, the Fool

39.3% of decks · synergy 0.28

Flubs, the Fool triggers on zero-mana spells, so Noxious Revival is a free cantrip effect in disguise — cast it to return something and get the Flubs trigger without spending a single mana.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Noxious Revival earns its reputation — the format's singleton rule makes graveyard recursion disproportionately valuable, and zero mana lets it slot into virtually any shell without warping the curve. In Legacy, it sees play in combo decks that need to loop specific pieces with minimal investment, particularly alongside Isochron Scepter lines. Modern can theoretically run it, but the format's speed means the lack of immediate board impact limits its homes to dedicated combo builds. Vintage and Oathbreaker follow the same logic as Legacy and Commander respectively — the card's power scales with how much a deck cares about a specific graveyard target.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Reclaim does nearly the same thing — instant speed, puts a card on top of your library — for a fraction of the price, and is the closest functional replacement for Noxious Revival in most contexts. The gap is the Phyrexian mana clause: Reclaim costs one green mana, which matters enormously in off-color decks or combo lines where you need to cast it for free; if your deck can pay green, Reclaim closes most of the distance.

Price Context

Current price

$19.31 mid tier

At $19.31, Noxious Revival sits in mid-tier pricing that is justified by genuine competitive demand across multiple formats rather than casual hype. It has held this range because the combination of zero mana cost and instant speed recursion has no true functional equivalent, so there is no reprint that directly undercuts its role.

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