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Reborn Hero

Creature — Human Soldier

Vigilance
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature has "When this creature dies, you may pay {W}{W}. If you do, return this card to the battlefield under your control."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Torment
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#30117
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Reborn Hero card art
Reborn Hero brings a recursive threat that keeps coming back as long as you can pay two mana and control a white permanent — every exile attempt costs your opponent extra, and every sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar turns it into an engine. The cost is real: Heroic triggers and white permanents aren't free, and four mana on rate is slow without a payoff already in play.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Reborn Hero actually earns a slot — white recursion that punishes exile-based removal is genuinely useful, and sacrifice-loop strategies can chain it with altar effects for repeated value. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; the recursion clause is too conditional and the body too vanilla to compete at those speeds. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: playable in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Reborn Hero sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up, easy to cut if it underperforms. Bulk rares with niche recursive utility tend to stay in this range unless a specific combo deck breaks out, so don't expect movement.

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