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Oketra's Last Mercy

Sorcery

Your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Hour of Devastation
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#16832
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Oketra's Last Mercy card art
Oketra's Last Mercy restores your life total to your starting total — in Commander, that's a full reset to 40 — but your lands don't untap for your next turn. The cost is steep enough that you're running it for a specific interaction, most often alongside Wall of Blood or in a Cecil, Dark Knight shell that wants to spike life totals on demand.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Cecil, Dark Knight

10.4% of decks · synergy 0.10

Cecil, Dark Knight's ability rewards swinging life totals in both directions, and Oketra's Last Mercy is one of the cleanest ways to rocket back to 40 after paying life aggressively — the tempo loss on lands is irrelevant when the payoff is already on the board.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Oketra's Last Mercy is a niche piece of a specific life-manipulation engine rather than a general-purpose lifegain spell — the land lockout is negligible when you're comboing, devastating when you're not. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's essentially unplayable outside of fringe combo attempts; competitive formats punish a three-mana do-nothing-this-turn at a much lower life ceiling than 40. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's sandbox nature that the same engine-piece logic applies, and the 20-life starting total makes the reset marginally less dramatic but still relevant.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Oketra's Last Mercy sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes sense for a card with a narrow combo application and no competitive-format home. Bulk pricing tends to stay flat; there's no demand pressure here unless a new commander dramatically breaks the life-reset effect.

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