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Priest of Forgotten Gods

Creature — Human Cleric

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Ravnica Allegiance
Price
$2.54
EDHREC rank
#1440
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Priest of Forgotten Gods card art
Priest of Forgotten Gods taxes opponents for two life and a card, drains them for two, and generates a mana — all for sacrificing two creatures you were probably planning to sacrifice anyway. The feed cost is real, but in any deck running Tormod, the Desecrator or Dina, Essence Brewer, those sacrifices are already paying dividends before the Priest's trigger even resolves.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dina, Essence Brewer

Dina, Essence Brewer

60.5% of decks · synergy 0.57

Dina, Essence Brewer turns every life-drain trigger from Priest of Forgotten Gods into direct damage, so the Priest's two-life tax stops being a nuisance and becomes a kill condition at scale.

02
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

65.8% of decks · synergy 0.57

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder floods the board with Thrull tokens on every creature cast, and Priest of Forgotten Gods gives those tokens a profitable exit — feeding the sacrifice requirement while generating mana and stripping cards from opponents' hands.

03
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant

Orah, Skyclave Hierophant

58.3% of decks · synergy 0.51

Priest of Forgotten Gods is a Cleric, so Orah, Skyclave Hierophant can recur it directly from the graveyard — meaning the Priest can sacrifice itself as one of its two fodder pieces and still come back for another activation.

04
Fumulus, the Infestation

Fumulus, the Infestation

51.2% of decks · synergy 0.43

Fumulus, the Infestation rewards you for having creatures die with consistent token and counter generation, which syncs cleanly with Priest of Forgotten Gods turning those deaths into mana and hand disruption on the same trigger.

05
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

49.2% of decks · synergy 0.41

Priest of Forgotten Gods has one power, so Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker returns it at end of turn after any sacrifice — turning a one-shot activation into a repeatable engine every single turn.

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

Priest of Forgotten Gods is a Commander card first and foremost — the multiplayer table means its life drain and forced discard hit multiple opponents simultaneously, and the token-heavy creature counts of Commander pods make the two-creature sacrifice requirement trivially easy to meet. In Modern and Pioneer, it sees fringe play in aristocrats shells where the mana generation matters more than the discard, but those formats move faster than a tap-activated two-drop can keep up with consistently. Legacy has the redundancy and speed to make it awkward — better sacrifice outlets exist at lower costs. Oathbreaker can mirror the Commander experience at a smaller scale, particularly in black life-drain signatures.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.54 cheap tier

At $2.54, Priest of Forgotten Gods sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to slot into any aristocrats build without a second thought. It's a heavily played two-drop with no meaningful reprint pressure pulling the price down further, so expect it to stay in this range.

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