Is Offspring's Revenge good in Commander?

Offspring's Revenge

Enchantment

At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile target red, white, or black creature card from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's 1/1. It gains haste until your next turn.

CMC: 5
Mana cost
Color identity: BRW
Rarity: rare
Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
Price: $0.25
EDHREC rank: #20724

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Offspring's Revenge puts a free 1/1 token with haste into play at the start of each combat — every turn, not just yours — and loads it with a triggered ability copied from any creature you've lost this game. The cost is a three-mana enchantment that does nothing until something dies, but pair it with Tree of Perdition and that "1/1" suddenly swaps life totals before it's even blocked.

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

Offspring's Revenge is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card in practice. The enchantment is too slow and too reliant on a deep graveyard to compete in 60-card formats where games end on turn four and your dead creatures rarely had abilities worth recycling. In Commander, the repeated free triggers across four opponents' combat steps generate real value over a long game, especially in reanimator or aristocrats shells where you're already engineering death.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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