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Revolutionist

Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Madness {3}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Modern Horizons 2
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#11932
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Revolutionist card art
Revolutionist returns any instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand — a clean, repeatable-in-theory recursion effect stapled to a Madness cost that Anje Falkenrath can trigger for free. The ceiling is real in graveyard and spellslinger shells, but outside those homes it's a five-mana do-nothing body, and Saw in Half exists to split that value further only in the builds that already want it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Anje Falkenrath

Anje Falkenrath

65.8% of decks · synergy 0.65

Anje Falkenrath's discard engine lets Revolutionist hit the graveyard and come back for free via Madness, making it a reliable recursion engine rather than a clunky five-drop — every activation cycle is a free instant or sorcery returned to hand.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Revolutionist earns its slot almost exclusively in Madness-centric builds — outside of Anje Falkenrath and a handful of similar commanders, the Madness cost is just a discount on an overpriced body. Pauper is where it has the most competitive standing, since instant and sorcery recursion at common is scarce and the Madness synergy can be scaffolded with cheap discard outlets. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient recursion, so Revolutionist doesn't register in those formats. Modern has better options at every point on the curve, and Pioneer and Standard don't see it at all.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Revolutionist is firmly bulk — buy it out of a common box or throw it in a cart as an afterthought. Bulk rares with narrow applications don't tend to climb unless a breakout commander drags them up, so treat it as a cheap role-player and nothing more.

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