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Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

Thopters you control have haste.
Whenever you play a land from exile or cast a spell from exile, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{R}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
rare
Set
March of the Machine: The Aftermath
Price
$0.44
EDHREC rank
#6190
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Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival card art
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival generates a token, pumps your team, and taxes opponents' instant-speed interaction — all on one three-mana body that commands a slot in any deck that wants repeated free-cast triggers. The cost is real: she does nothing without other cards exiling themselves or being cast from exile, so she's dead weight in shells that don't feed her engine, but in Rocco, Street Chef or Eternal Scourge loops she's simply a three-mana anthem that also builds a board.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rocco, Street Chef

Rocco, Street Chef

61.4% of decks · synergy 0.59

Rocco, Street Chef's entire game plan revolves around casting cards from exile, and Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival turns every one of those triggers into a Thopter token plus a team-wide +1/+1 counter — she's not a support piece here, she's a core payoff.

02

Gwen Stacy

45.1% of decks · synergy 0.44

Gwen Stacy exiles cards from the top of libraries as a core mechanic, and Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival converts every cast-from-exile event into a flying token plus a counter, giving the deck a board-building payoff that stacks fast.

03
Fire Lord Zuko

Fire Lord Zuko

43.2% of decks · synergy 0.42

Fire Lord Zuko rewards casting spells from exile, and Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival doubles down on that reward structure — every exile-cast gets you a Thopter and a counter, turning the deck's repeated aggression into exponential board growth.

04
Neriv, Crackling Vanguard

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard

40.1% of decks · synergy 0.39

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard exiles cards and replays them, and Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival slots in as a passive engine that generates a token and a counter every time that loop fires, amplifying the deck's go-wide plan without requiring any additional setup.

05
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard

Neyali, Suns' Vanguard

15.2% of decks · synergy 0.15

Neyali, Suns' Vanguard is built around casting tokens' exiled spells, and Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival stacks on top of that trigger to net additional tokens and counters from every cast, compounding value in a shell that was already generating it.

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

Commander is where Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival earns her keep — the format's density of exile-matters commanders means she's consistently a three-mana engine piece rather than a vanilla 2/2. In Modern and Pioneer she's fringe playable at best, slotting into niche Pia-and-Kiran or exile-casting brews but rarely making competitive cuts. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power to support exile loops but are too fast and too tuned for a three-mana do-nothing-alone creature to register. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's appeal at a smaller scale, particularly in Naya or Jeskai exile-cast signatures.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.44 bulk tier

At $0.44, Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival is firmly bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Bulk rares with genuine synergy upside don't always stay there, but this one's narrow enough that a broad price spike is unlikely absent a new commander that breaks the exile-cast archetype wide open.

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