Revelation
World Enchantment
Players play with their hands revealed.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Chronicles Foreign Black Border
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #21060
Revelation is a sorcery that lets you reveal any number of cards from your hand, gain life equal to the cards revealed, then draw that many cards at end of turn — a slow but potentially massive hand refill stapled to a life buffer. The cost is real: you wait a full turn cycle to see the payoff, which makes it vulnerable to disruption and nearly unplayable in fast formats.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Revelation is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where its story begins and ends — it's too slow and conditional for Legacy or Vintage, where the card pool offers draw spells that don't ask you to wait a turn. In Commander, Revelation finds its most charitable home: the format's slower pace means the delayed draw is survivable, and life gain synergies with commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Dina, Soul Steeper can make the incidental life relevant. Even there, it competes against instant-speed draw and one-card engines that don't telegraph your hand size to the table.
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Price Context
Current price
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.