Search for Survivors
Sorcery
Reorder your graveyard at random. An opponent chooses a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, exile it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #26860
Search for Survivors puts a creature from your graveyard on top of your library — not into your hand, not onto the battlefield — which makes it a reanimation enabler only in the loosest sense. At three mana as a sorcery with no additional upside, it rarely earns a slot over actual reanimation spells.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Search for Survivors is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient graveyard manipulation, so it sees essentially no play there. In Commander, it occupies a narrow lane: graveyard-centric decks that want to recur a specific creature but lack the budget or slots for Animate Dead or Reanimate. Even in that context, it competes poorly against Corpse Dance, Apprentice Necromancer, and similar effects that put the creature directly into play.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Search for Survivors is firmly bulk — the price reflects demand, which is low. It won't appreciably gain or lose value, so buying a copy costs almost nothing, but don't expect it to appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.