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Saffi Eriksdotter

Legendary Creature — Human Scout

Sacrifice Saffi Eriksdotter: When target creature is put into your graveyard this turn, return that card to the battlefield.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
rare
Set
Time Spiral
Price
$1.40
EDHREC rank
#7047
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Saffi Eriksdotter card art
Saffi Eriksdotter is a two-mana sacrifice outlet and recursion engine in one body — sac her targeting a creature, that creature dies and returns, and with something like Viscera Seer in play you've got a loop. The cost is that she only saves one creature per loop iteration and requires a sacrifice outlet to do anything, so she's dead weight without the supporting pieces; in Karador, Ghost Chieftain shells those pieces are nearly always present, which is exactly why she belongs there.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Karador, Ghost Chieftain

39.5% of decks · synergy 0.37

Karador, Ghost Chieftain's built-in graveyard recursion means Saffi Eriksdotter can re-enter the battlefield repeatedly without burning resources, fueling infinite loops with sacrifice outlets already common in the 99.

02
Kethis, the Hidden Hand

Kethis, the Hidden Hand

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.33

Saffi Eriksdotter is a legendary creature, so Kethis, the Hidden Hand can cast her directly from the graveyard — she slots into Kethis combo lines as a low-cost legendary that generates loops when paired with the right sac outlet.

03
Captain Sisay

Captain Sisay

23.1% of decks · synergy 0.21

Captain Sisay can tutor Saffi Eriksdotter directly onto the battlefield, and as a legendary herself she contributes to Sisay's chain of legendary toolbox fetches while doubling as a protection piece for other key legends.

04
Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee

16.7% of decks · synergy 0.15

Samwise Gamgee triggers whenever a nontoken creature returns from the graveyard, and Saffi Eriksdotter's recursion effect generates exactly those triggers — the two create a tight loop that produces Food tokens and can translate into a win with the right outlet.

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 Saffi Eriksdotter actually lives — the format's singleton density of sacrifice outlets and graveyard synergies means her combo potential is reliably available, and she's a two-mana legendary that curves cleanly into the early game. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but sees no meaningful play; those formats move too fast for a creature-based loop that requires additional pieces. Modern is the same story — she's legal but outclassed by faster and more compact combo infrastructure. Saffi Eriksdotter is, straightforwardly, a Commander card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.40 cheap tier

At $1.40, Saffi Eriksdotter sits in the budget-combo tier — cheap enough to include without deliberation, priced low because her applications outside Commander are essentially zero. That price is stable; she's not a card that spikes, but she's also not going anywhere given sustained demand from Karador, Ghost Chieftain and Kethis, the Hidden Hand lists.

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