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Rite of Passage

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counter.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Fifth Dawn
Price
$4.79
EDHREC rank
#5969
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Rite of Passage card art
Rite of Passage turns every source of damage into a permanent stat boost, and in a format full of pinging, fighting, and self-damage effects, that adds up fast. It's the engine behind infinite-counter loops with Polyraptor and the reason Wolverine, Best There Is hits like a freight train by turn four.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Wolverine, Best There Is

Wolverine, Best There Is

74.4% of decks · synergy 0.71

Wolverine, Best There Is deals damage to itself whenever it fights or gets targeted, and Rite of Passage converts every one of those pings into a +1/+1 counter — the commander snowballs out of control within a few turns, which is why 74% of Wolverine decks run it.

02
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

66.1% of decks · synergy 0.65

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy fights on command, and Rite of Passage means every fight she initiates grows her team permanently rather than just trading damage — the counter accumulation turns a control tool into a finisher.

04
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

27.2% of decks · synergy 0.24

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients pings itself to generate Dragon tokens, and Rite of Passage parlays that self-damage into a growing counter count on Vrondiss — the loop gets out of hand quickly with any additional damage doubler on 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 Rite of Passage earns its keep: the format's long games, creature-heavy tables, and abundance of fight effects, damage-based removal, and self-ping commanders give it constant fuel. Outside Commander, it's legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Modern, but sees essentially no play in any of them — three mana for a symmetrical enchantment that requires a specific damage-based gameplan is far too slow and narrow for those formats. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if your planeswalker generates damage triggers, but the power level ceiling there is lower than in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.79 cheap tier

At $4.79, Rite of Passage sits in the affordable-but-not-bulk tier — cheap enough to slot into most budgets without deliberation. Demand is tied tightly to its handful of dominant commanders, so the price is unlikely to move much unless a new damage-ping commander breaks out.

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