Sanguine Indulgence
Sorcery
This spell costs 
less to cast if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #14897
Sanguine Indulgence returns two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand for two mana at instant speed — that's efficient recursion that doubles as a combat trick window. The cost is real: you need two creatures already dead, so it's a blank in the early game.
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 |
In Commander, Sanguine Indulgence fits cleanly into aristocrats and reanimator strategies that expect a stocked graveyard by mid-game — the instant speed is the differentiator, letting you hold up interaction and only cast this when you need it. Outside Commander, the card is legal across every major format but sees essentially no competitive play; two-mana hand refills in 60-card formats need to do more than require two dead creatures to be worth a slot. In Pauper specifically, the common slot is brutally contested, and better graveyard recursion options exist at the same price point.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Sanguine Indulgence sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in or find in a draft chaff pile. Bulk commons rarely appreciate unless a new commander makes them spike, so treat this as a freely available role-player rather than anything to stock up on.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.