Is Strands of Night good in Commander?

Strands of Night in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Strands of Night turns any swamp into a reusable reanimation engine — pay two mana, sacrifice a Swamp, pull any creature from your graveyard straight to the battlefield. The cost is real and cumulative, so it belongs in decks that either generate Swamps faster than they spend them or lean on cards like Aftermath Analyst to recycle the lands they've sacrificed.

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

Commander is where Strands of Night earns its keep — repeatable reanimation at instant-optional sorcery speed is exactly the kind of engine grindy black decks want over a long game. The Swamp cost starts to bite around turns 6–8 when mana bases get thin, so it rewards builds that run Cabal Coffers, Urborg, or heavy basic counts rather than greedy duals. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but practically invisible — those formats move faster than a four-mana setup card can operate. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer pacing and is the only other format where Strands of Night can realistically do work.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

185 decks

Aftermath AnalystStrands of NightLotus Cobra Zuran Orb

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped

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158 decks

Aftermath AnalystStrands of NightTireless Provisioner Zuran Orb

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped

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130 decks

Aftermath AnalystStrands of NightSpelunking Zuran Orb

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all land cards from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield; Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers

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92 decks

Aftermath AnalystStrands of NightZuran Orb Horizon Explorer

Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all land cards from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield; Infinite LTB

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76 decks

Aftermath AnalystStrands of NightAmulet of Vigor Zuran Orb

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all land cards from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield

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Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Strands of Night sits squarely in bulk territory — you're picking it up as a throw-in, not a purchase. The price reflects low demand rather than low power, so it's unlikely to spike unless a high-profile Commander deck brings it into the spotlight.