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Priest of Fell Rites

Creature — Human Warlock

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons 2
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#2675
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Priest of Fell Rites card art
Priest of Fell Rites puts a reanimation spell on a body — tap to reanimate at sorcery speed, unearth to do it instantly at end of turn — and the unearth clause is what makes it dangerous. Necrotic Ooze copies the tap ability from the graveyard, and Terra, Herald of Hope turns the whole package into a recursive engine that's hard to answer cleanly.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Terra, Herald of Hope

Terra, Herald of Hope

66.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

Terra, Herald of Hope runs Priest of Fell Rites in over 66% of its builds because the Priest feeds the graveyard synergy Terra demands while also providing on-demand reanimation to rebuild after sweepers. The combination means Terra decks are rarely more than one tap activation away from replaying their best threat.

02
Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Betor, Ancestor's Voice

48.2% of decks · synergy 0.43

Betor, Ancestor's Voice values Priest of Fell Rites as a cheap, repeatable way to loop creatures back from the graveyard while simultaneously stocking it — exactly the kind of redundancy Betor's graveyard-matters gameplan needs.

03
Raffine, Scheming Seer

Raffine, Scheming Seer

43.6% of decks · synergy 0.41

Raffine, Scheming Seer's connive trigger mills cards into the graveyard on every attack, which means Priest of Fell Rites often has a target the turn it enters. The unearth clause is especially relevant here since Raffine builds are aggressive and want reanimation that doesn't cost a full turn.

04
Bane, Lord of Darkness

Bane, Lord of Darkness

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.38

Bane, Lord of Darkness wants a critical mass of creatures to sacrifice and recur, and Priest of Fell Rites slots in as both a sacrifice outlet target and a way to rebuy whatever Bane consumed.

05
Celes, Rune Knight

Celes, Rune Knight

40.3% of decks · synergy 0.35

Celes, Rune Knight lists include Priest of Fell Rites as graveyard insurance — when Celes or a key support creature gets answered, the Priest gets it back without spending a card from hand.

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 Priest of Fell Rites does its best work — the singleton format rewards redundant reanimation pieces, and the Priest's unearth doubles as insurance against graveyard hate by front-loading value before opponents can respond. In Legacy and Vintage, it competes against faster, more efficient reanimation like Reanimate and Animate Dead, so it rarely earns a slot outside niche creature-combo shells where the tap ability on a body matters more than raw speed. Modern is legal but the card sees minimal play there for the same reason — the format's velocity demands payoffs that come online faster. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home wherever the signature spell slot is occupied and decks need another reanimation body in the 99.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Priest of Fell Rites is bulk, and that price is likely to hold — it's a widely printed uncommon with no scarcity pressure. You're getting a lot of functional power per dollar here, and there's no urgency to buy in bulk before a spike.

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