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Rest in Peace

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, exile all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Ravnica Remastered
Price
$1.05
EDHREC rank
#2269
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Rest in Peace card art
Rest in Peace exiles every graveyard on entry and redirects all future cards that would go there to exile instead — the entire table's graveyard becomes unavailable for the rest of the game. The cost is locking yourself out of your own graveyard too, which makes it a natural fit in decks that don't need it, and a two-mana combo piece in shells like Helm of Obedience or Lavinia, Azorius Renegade that actively reward the lockout.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

41.3% of decks · synergy 0.36

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade is the premier Rest in Peace commander precisely because the combo is already the deck's primary win condition — Rest in Peace plus Helm of Obedience mills an opponent's entire library into exile at instant speed for just one mana.

02
Zur the Enchanter

Zur the Enchanter

37.1% of decks · synergy 0.34

Zur the Enchanter tutors Rest in Peace directly onto the battlefield with an attack trigger, making it one of the most reliable ways to assemble the Helm of Obedience lock without drawing it.

04
Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

24.8% of decks · synergy 0.21

Sythis, Harvest's Hand runs Rest in Peace as free value — enchantress triggers don't care about the graveyard restriction, so the card draws while hosing an entire axis of the game.

05
Ketramose, the New Dawn

Ketramose, the New Dawn

21.7% of decks · synergy 0.20

Ketramose, the New Dawn cares about cards leaving the graveyard, and Rest in Peace reroutes that flow to exile, creating a continuous trigger engine as long as cards keep dying.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Rest in Peace is a staple across every Constructed format it's legal in, and for good reason — two mana for a permanent, symmetrical graveyard exile is among the most efficient hate effects ever printed. In Modern and Legacy it shows up in sideboards as a surgical answer to Dredge, Reanimator, and any deck leaning on the 'yard for value. In Pioneer the same logic applies, and Standard legality means it sees periodic main-deck play whenever graveyard decks dominate the meta. Commander is where it gets the most complicated: the symmetry reads as a bug in most decks but becomes a feature in stax and combo builds, and the Helm of Obedience interaction elevates it from disruption to a genuine two-card win condition.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.05 cheap tier

At $1.05, Rest in Peace is cheap for a format staple with a 40% inclusion rate in its highest-synergy commander — the reprint history has kept the price accessible without making it bulk. At that price point there's no reason to hesitate on copies for any white deck that doesn't rely on its own graveyard.

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