Promise of Tomorrow

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, exile it.
At the beginning of each end step, if you control no creatures, sacrifice this enchantment and return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under your control.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Legends
Price
$0.47
EDHREC rank
#15877
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Promise of Tomorrow card art
Promise of Tomorrow turns your graveyard into a second hand — every creature that dies gets exiled to it, and paying one mana at your upkeep returns the whole pile to play. Three mana for a repeatable mass-recursion engine is the deal; the catch is that it does nothing the turn it lands and dies to any enchantment removal before you untap.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Promise of Tomorrow is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games give it the time to exile a meaningful pile of creatures before you pay the upkeep trigger. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with faster, more resilient engines and sees essentially no play. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where a three-mana enchantment can occasionally stabilize a game long enough to matter, though it's still a fringe inclusion there. Stick to Commander, where a single sweeper into a Promise of Tomorrow trigger can flip a losing board state entirely.

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Current price

$0.47 bulk tier

At $0.47, Promise of Tomorrow is deep bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Demand is steady enough from Commander players that it isn't going lower, but it's not the kind of card that spikes without a reprint scare.

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