Revoke Demise
Sorcery
This spell costs 
less to cast if it targets a creature card with mana value 3 or less.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #19546
Revoke Demise returns a nontoken creature from your graveyard to the battlefield and, if that creature's mana value is four or greater, draws you a card — all for three mana at instant speed. That combination of recursion and conditional draw on one efficient spell makes it a real inclusion in any black deck that regularly recurs expensive creatures.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the primary home for Revoke Demise — the format's high average mana values mean the draw trigger fires consistently, and instant-speed graveyard recursion at three mana is genuinely above rate. In Pauper it's legal and worth considering in any black midrange shell that churns through creatures, though the card pool is leaner and the trigger fires less reliably. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; the card doesn't do anything those formats need at that speed or cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Revoke Demise is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for pocket change. That price will stay flat; there's no scarcity driving it up, but its utility in Commander keeps it from being a true throwaway.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.