Reap the Past
Sorcery
Return X cards at random from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Reap the Past.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #11771
Reap the Past refills your hand with every nonland permanent and instant or sorcery from your graveyard up to X, where X is however much mana you threw at it — the bigger the investment, the more cards you recover. It's a mana-sink draw spell that scales into the late game, and Rosheen, Roaring Prophet makes that scaling trivial by contributing four mana to the X every time.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet's activated ability pumps directly into the X cost of Reap the Past, letting you recover six or more cards from your graveyard as early as turn five — it's one of the deck's most natural late-game reloads.
Borborygmos Enraged
Borborygmos Enraged burns lands from hand at a rate that empties resources fast, and Reap the Past is one of the few spells that can pull those lands and the spells that fetched them back in a single burst.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Reap the Past is a Commander card through and through — the X cost needs the kind of mana generation that only multiplayer games and dedicated ramp packages can supply, and the payoff of recovering multiple permanents and spells at once is most relevant when a board wipe or long grind has buried your resources. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with cheaper, more efficient graveyard recursion that doesn't ask you to sink six-plus mana to matter. Modern has the same problem: the card isn't busted enough to justify the cost when the format moves faster than Reap the Past wants to resolve. Treat it as a Commander-only inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Reap the Past sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy pickup for any Gruul deck that wants a late-game reload. Bulk rares with narrow appeal rarely spike unless a new commander pushes them into demand, so grab copies whenever you see them — no reason to chase it at a premium.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
- Borborygmos Enraged
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.