Rocky Rebuke
Instant
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #9064
Rocky Rebuke puts a land on top of its controller's library — effectively removing a blocker or attacker for a full turn cycle — and it does it for two mana at instant speed. In any deck helmed by Toph, Earthbending Master, that tempo play doubles as fuel for her landfall and land-matters triggers, making it earn its slot twice.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Toph, Earthbending Master
Toph, Earthbending Master rewards every land interaction, and Rocky Rebuke bouncing a land back to the top of an opponent's library feeds her triggered abilities while stranding that opponent a mana behind for the turn.
Bumi, Unleashed
Bumi, Unleashed cares about lands entering play and chaotic board disruption, so Rocky Rebuke fits naturally — it disrupts an opponent's development while keeping the land in the game for someone else to exploit.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rocky Rebuke is a Commander card through and through — the tempo loss it inflicts is most punishing in a singleton, longer-game format where falling a land behind for a turn can derail an entire game plan. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern or Legacy, bouncing a land is simply too low-impact against fast, redundant strategies that don't care about a one-turn stumble. Pauper could theoretically use it in land-disruption shells, but better options exist at common. Outside of Avatar-themed Commander decks, Rocky Rebuke is a niche pick; inside them, it's a clean two-mana answer that does real work.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Rocky Rebuke is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that punches above its price in the right commander shell. Bulk commons and uncommons like this rarely move on secondary market unless a breakout deck or reprint drives attention, so treat it as a cheap pickup rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.