Remorseful Cleric
Creature — Spirit Cleric
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Exile target player's graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Crimson Vow Commander
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #5174
Remorseful Cleric trades itself to exile an entire graveyard — a permanent, uncounterable effect stapled to a relevant creature type for one mana. The cost is that it dies to do it, which means you need a deck that either recurs its creatures or values the sacrifice; in the right shell, that's a feature, not a bug.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Millicent, Restless Revenant
Millicent, Restless Revenant triggers off each nontoken Spirit that enters the battlefield, and Remorseful Cleric is a Spirit that wants to die — putting it in the graveyard yourself feeds Millicent's token generation while denying an opponent's graveyard in the same motion.
Quintorius, History Chaser
Remorseful Cleric is a Spirit that enters from the graveyard and dies on demand, which lines up perfectly with Quintorius, History Chaser's ability to reward you each time a permanent card leaves your graveyard.
Sephara, Sky's Blade
Remorseful Cleric flies, curves into Sephara, Sky's Blade's alternate cost as one of three fliers you need in play, and doubles as a graveyard answer that doesn't cost you a card slot dedicated to hate.
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant retrieves any Cleric with lower mana value when a Cleric dies, so sacrificing Remorseful Cleric for its ability isn't a loss — Orah puts it straight back into your hand.
King of the Oathbreakers
King of the Oathbreakers cares about Spirits entering and attacking, and Remorseful Cleric is a low-cost Spirit that can contribute to that count before its death trigger becomes relevant.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Remorseful Cleric fills the graveyard-hate slot in any white Spirit or Cleric deck without feeling like a dead draw — it's a body when you need one and a surgical answer when you don't. In Modern and Pioneer, dedicated graveyard hate sees sideboard play, but Remorseful Cleric competes with Rest in Peace and Surgical Extraction, which exile more efficiently and don't ask you to attack or block first. Legacy has even faster options, so Remorseful Cleric doesn't crack sideboards there either. The card's real home is Commander, specifically in creature-based tribal lists where the Cleric or Spirit subtype matters as much as the effect.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Remorseful Cleric is deep bulk — you're paying for the effect, not absorbing any premium. Bulk rares at this price point rarely spike unless a new commander pushes the tribe, so pick up copies freely without any concern about availability.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.