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Rise of the Eldrazi

Sorcery

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target permanent. Target player draws four cards. Take an extra turn after this one.
Exile Rise of the Eldrazi.

CMC
12
Mana cost
{9}{C}{C}{C}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$19.58
EDHREC rank
#2119
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Rise of the Eldrazi card art
Rise of the Eldrazi lands on the table and immediately hands you a free spell every turn — imprinted under Panoptic Mirror, it becomes a one-card engine that buries opponents in Eldrazi before they can answer. The mana cost is real at six, but Lorehold, the Historian decks treat that as a feature, not a bug.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lorehold, the Historian

Lorehold, the Historian

56.1% of decks · synergy 0.55

Lorehold, the Historian rewards casting expensive spells, and Rise of the Eldrazi is exactly the kind of high-CMC instant that generates value both on cast and on repeat — imprinting it fuels the engine while feeding Lorehold's cost-reduction and card-advantage loops.

02
Zhulodok, Void Gorger

Zhulodok, Void Gorger

81.5% of decks · synergy 0.37

Zhulodok, Void Gorger gives colorless spells seven mana or more cascade twice, and Rise of the Eldrazi sitting at six mana sits just outside that threshold — but Zhulodok decks run it because it tutors the Eldrazi payoffs that Zhulodok wants to cascade into.

03
Magar of the Magic Strings

Magar of the Magic Strings

36.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Magar of the Magic Strings exiles instants and sorceries to create creature copies that can recast them, and Rise of the Eldrazi is a premium imprint target that Magar can rebuy repeatedly for massive tempo swings.

04
Hidetsugu and Kairi

Hidetsugu and Kairi

25.7% of decks · synergy 0.25

Hidetsugu and Kairi triggers on death by casting a free instant or sorcery from the top of the library, and Rise of the Eldrazi is a high-ceiling hit that immediately puts Eldrazi tokens into play or sets up a follow-up loop.

05
Narset, Enlightened Master

Narset, Enlightened Master

24.1% of decks · synergy 0.24

Narset, Enlightened Master attacks to exile instants and sorceries and cast them for free, making Rise of the Eldrazi a premier flip — a free six-mana spell that generates tokens or imprints for future turns is exactly what Narset wants to find.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Rise of the Eldrazi does its real work — the 100-card singleton format gives it time to set up, and the multiplayer life totals mean the Eldrazi tokens it generates can close out games without racing a single opponent's clock. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but essentially unplayed; six mana is a lifetime in those formats, and the payoff doesn't match what those environments demand. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, particularly any signature-spell or high-CMC strategy, but the smaller deck size and faster pace make it harder to justify. For anything outside Commander, Rise of the Eldrazi is a collectible curiosity; inside Commander, it's a genuine build-around.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If the price is the barrier, Spawning Kraken and Eldrazi Conscription both chase the same Eldrazi-token and game-ending-enchantment space at a fraction of the cost, though neither replaces the instant-speed repeatability that makes Rise of the Eldrazi worth running. For the Panoptic Mirror shell specifically, any cheaper high-impact instant fills the imprint slot in a pinch, but you lose the unique combination of ramp, tokens, and annihilator threats that Rise of the Eldrazi delivers in a single card.

Price Context

Current price

$19.58 mid tier

At $19.58, Rise of the Eldrazi sits in the mid tier — not a casual pickup, but not a reserved-list expense either. It's a fair ask for a card with genuine build-around potential and no functional reprint that duplicates the instant type line.

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