Revenant Patriarch
Creature — Spirit
When this creature enters, if 
was spent to cast it, target player skips their next combat phase.
This creature can't block.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guildpact
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28630
Revenant Patriarch enters the battlefield and forces your chosen opponent to skip their next combat step — a meaningful tempo play stapled to a 4/3 body for five mana. The cost is real: five mana for a creature with no evasion and no recurring threat is a steep ask in most powered environments.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Revenant Patriarch earns genuine consideration — the combat-skip effect is politically potent at a four-player table, and blink commanders like Brago, King Eternal can loop it into a hard lock. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage it's unplayable; five mana for a 4/3 with no immediate board impact doesn't compete at those power levels, and combat denial in one-on-one formats is far weaker than removal or counterspells. Oathbreaker is legal but faces the same problem: the singleton, two-player structure strips most of the political angle and leaves a slow, vulnerable creature.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Revenant Patriarch is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a box rather than order. There's no meaningful price floor to speak of, and nothing in its design profile suggests demand that would push it off the bulk table.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.