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Restless Apparition

Creature — Spirit

{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Eventide
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#17515
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Restless Apparition card art
Restless Apparition is a recursive sacrifice outlet that keeps coming back — the real cost is the mana tax each iteration, which adds up fast in a long game. In Celes, Rune Knight builds that want a cheap, repeatable body to feed Viscera Seer and similar altars, it earns its slot; outside that niche, the escalating return cost makes it easy to strand.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Celes, Rune Knight

Celes, Rune Knight

20.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Celes, Rune Knight wants creatures dying on a schedule, and Restless Apparition delivers a self-replacing sacrifice target that syncs cleanly with her rune-trigger gameplan — the exile-and-return loop generates repeated death triggers without needing to rebuild your board.

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

Restless Apparition sees virtually no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — formats where a three-mana 2/1 with a costly recursion clause can't keep pace. Commander is where it actually lives, specifically in aristocrats and sacrifice-value shells that need a creature willing to die over and over without disappearing permanently. The card is legal in Oathbreaker as well, where the faster clock makes the escalating return cost harder to justify, but a dedicated sacrifice commander can still extract value from it.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Restless Apparition sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it out of a bulk bin or grab a copy as a throw-in without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb, so treat this as a low-stakes slot-filler rather than a long-term hold.

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