Rite of the Moth
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #16255
Rite of the Moth puts a 1/1 white Moth creature token with flying onto the battlefield when a nontoken creature you control dies, turning every death into a replacement body. The cost is that the trigger requires your creatures to actually die — any flicker, exile-based removal, or sacrifice-without-death clause shuts it off entirely.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rite of the Moth slots into any aristocrats or token-doubling shell that already wants creatures dying en masse — it turns a single Wrath of God into a full board of flying blockers. Outside Commander, the effect is too slow and too conditional for the 60-card formats: Pioneer and Modern demand immediate impact, and a death-trigger enchantment at this rate doesn't clear that bar. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all. Standard is the only 60-card environment where it could see fringe play in a dedicated sacrifice deck, but even there it competes with more efficient payoffs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Rite of the Moth is deep bulk — buy a playset for pocket change and don't think twice. Bulk enchantments with narrow triggers don't appreciate unless a combo or commander pushes them into demand, and nothing on the horizon does that here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.