Rushed Rebirth
Instant
Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $1.03
- EDHREC rank
- #8212
Rushed Rebirth replaces a dying creature with the next size down from your library — instant speed, one mana, and the replacement enters with a +1/+1 counter. Henzie "Toolbox" Torre decks treat it as a tutor stapled to a death trigger, and that's exactly what it is.
Best Commanders
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Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre blinks creatures in at discount and profits when they die — Rushed Rebirth turns that death into a free tutor, fetching whatever creature answer the board demands while leaving a counter on the new arrival.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the unambiguous home for Rushed Rebirth — singleton means the creature it fetches is almost always something specific and impactful, and instant-speed tutoring onto the battlefield is strong enough to run in virtually any creature-heavy shell. In competitive 1v1 formats like Legacy or Modern it's a curio at best: the effect is too slow and too conditional for formats that end on turn three or four. Pioneer is technically legal but the same logic applies — no competitive archetype wants this. Rushed Rebirth is a Commander card that happens to have a Legacy stamp.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.03 cheap tier
At $1.03, Rushed Rebirth sits in the buy-without-thinking tier for any deck that cares about creatures dying. Instant-speed ETB tutors at this price don't stay cheap indefinitely, but there's no reprint pressure pushing it higher right now either.
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Mentioned
- Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.