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Proper Burial

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Dissension
Price
$2.57
EDHREC rank
#17292
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Proper Burial card art
Proper Burial turns every creature death into a life buffer, and in sacrifice-heavy shells that buffer gets enormous fast. The four-mana cost is real, but a single loop with Warren Soultrader pays it back immediately.

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

Proper Burial is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and creature-dense boards are exactly where draining 20-plus life from a single sacrifice chain becomes realistic. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but laughably outclassed; no competitive deck wants a four-mana enchantment that doesn't win the game on the spot. Oathbreaker can support it in the right lifegain shell, though the 20-life starting total compresses the margin for error.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.57 cheap tier

At $2.57, Proper Burial sits in the budget-comfortable tier — low enough to slot in without second-guessing, high enough that it has real demand behind it. The price reflects genuine niche utility rather than hype, so it's unlikely to crater.

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