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Reverberate

Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Magic 2011
Price
$3.59
EDHREC rank
#1359
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Reverberate card art
Reverberate copies any instant or sorcery on the stack for two red mana — it's a stone-cold rate winner that doubles your best spell or hijacks an opponent's. Pyromancer's Goggles already copies red spells for free once it's live, but Reverberate gives you that same leverage reactively, at instant speed, on any color of spell. Ashling, Flame Dancer turns every copied instant into a chorus trigger, which makes Reverberate one of the most efficient cards in that deck.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ashling, Flame Dancer

Ashling, Flame Dancer

64.1% of decks · synergy 0.52

Ashling, Flame Dancer's ability triggers on each instant and sorcery cast or copied, so Reverberate effectively doubles the trigger count while also doubling the spell itself — two triggers, two effects, one card.

02
Kalamax, the Stormsire

Kalamax, the Stormsire

45.0% of decks · synergy 0.43

Kalamax, the Stormsire copies the first instant you cast each turn while tapped, and Reverberate targeting that copy creates a second copy, which triggers Kalamax again and stacks another +1/+1 counter — the loop compounds fast.

03

Urabrask

46.8% of decks · synergy 0.35

Urabrask taxes opponents one mana per spell and gives you a free Impulse each turn, so Reverberate in that shell doubles a lethal burn spell or steals a combo piece at the exact moment your opponent can least afford to answer both copies.

05
Wort, the Raidmother

Wort, the Raidmother

30.0% of decks · synergy 0.29

Wort, the Raidmother's conspire mechanic already copies spells by tapping creatures, and Reverberate stacks on top of that, meaning a single ritual or kill spell can produce three or four copies in a Wort deck with the right 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

Commander is where Reverberate does its best work — multiplayer games are full of haymaker sorceries worth stealing or doubling, and the one-time investment of two mana can swing the entire table. In Legacy and Vintage it sees fringe play as a Twincast variant, mostly in storm shells that need redundancy on their copy effects or in reactive sideboards that can counter a resolved spell by copying it. Modern is legal but largely uninterested — the format moves too fast for a reactive two-mana spell that doesn't generate card advantage on its own. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are off the table entirely. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reason Commander is: signature spells are worth copying, and opponents' power plays are worth stealing.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.59 cheap tier

At $3.59, Reverberate sits in the cheap tier for what it does — a flexible, format-legal copy spell with real combo applications rarely stays this accessible. It's a safe include without breaking a budget, and its utility across multiple archetypes means it's unlikely to drop further.

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