Is Revel in Riches good in Commander?

Revel in Riches

Enchantment

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

CMC: 5
Mana cost
Color identity: B
Rarity: rare
Set: Secret Lair Drop
Price: —
EDHREC rank: #1125

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Revel in Riches turns every opponent's creature death into a Treasure token and staples an alternate win condition onto that engine — if you start your upkeep with ten or more Treasures, you win the game outright. The five-mana cost is real, but in black's token-and-sacrifice ecosystem it pays for itself fast, and spells like Brass's Bounty can vault you from zero to ten in a single turn; Malik, Grim Manipulator makes the engine even more lopsided by forcing opponents to sacrifice their own creatures on demand.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Malik, Grim Manipulator

59.3% of decks · synergy 0.53

Malik, Grim Manipulator's ability to make opponents sacrifice creatures is a direct, on-command trigger for Revel in Riches — every forced sacrifice lands a Treasure on your board, letting you stockpile toward ten without relying on combat.

Vihaan, Goldwaker

57.6% of decks · synergy 0.51

Vihaan, Goldwaker animates Treasures into attacking creatures, which creates a second axis of pressure alongside the win condition Revel in Riches provides — opponents have to respect both the beatdown and the treasury hitting ten.

Vazi, Keen Negotiator

51.4% of decks · synergy 0.46

Vazi, Keen Negotiator churns out Treasure tokens as a political engine, and Revel in Riches converts that accumulation into a hard alternate win that opponents can't simply ignore or negotiate around.

Vraska, the Silencer

46.9% of decks · synergy 0.45

Vraska, the Silencer turns opposing creatures into Treasure tokens on death, which feeds Revel in Riches directly — the more efficiently Vraska removes blockers, the faster the win-condition clock ticks.

Edward Kenway

47.0% of decks · synergy 0.44

Edward Kenway's pirate-and-Treasure synergies generate the kind of sustained token density that makes Revel in Riches a reliable closer rather than a slow enchantment nobody fears.

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

Revel in Riches is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is overwhelmingly where it lives. In 60-card formats the five-mana cost and the dependency on creature deaths make it too slow and too conditional to compete with faster win conditions, and the ten-Treasure threshold is nearly unreachable in a two-player game where removal comes down before you can stockpile. Commander is the format it was designed for: three opponents means roughly triple the creature deaths, multiplayer politics buys it time to sit on the board, and the abundance of mass-removal and sacrifice effects makes reaching ten tokens a realistic mid-game milestone rather than a late-game pipe dream.

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