Ominous Harvest
Sorcery
Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.)
Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Price
- $1.35
- EDHREC rank
- #13988
Ominous Harvest puts a land from your graveyard directly onto the battlefield and draws a card — all for three mana at sorcery speed. It's a clean two-for-one, and in Dina, Essence Brewer builds that land entry also triggers life gain, making the whole package quietly efficient.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dina, Essence Brewer
Dina, Essence Brewer cares about every life you gain, and Ominous Harvest's land-to-battlefield clause triggers that engine while simultaneously replacing itself — two payoffs stapled to one spell is exactly what Dina wants.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ominous Harvest is a Commander card through and through — the combination of graveyard recursion, card draw, and life-gain synergy takes multiple turns to fully exploit, which fits the slower, value-driven pace of 100-card multiplayer. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never played; three mana for a sorcery-speed land is not a competitive rate in formats where that slot belongs to far more disruptive spells. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card-adjacent format where Ominous Harvest could find a home, specifically in life-gain or graveyard-value shells built around a compatible planeswalker.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.35 cheap tier
At $1.35, Ominous Harvest sits comfortably in budget range — no hesitation required for a slot in any Dina or graveyard-value build. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, so buy it when you need it rather than treating it as a priority pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.