Tempt with Immortality
Sorcery
Tempting offer — Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each opponent may return a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield. For each opponent who does, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Price
- $1.48
- EDHREC rank
- #13227
Tempt with Immortality puts every player's graveyard on the table at once — if even one opponent bites, you're returning multiple creatures for five mana. The catch is transparency: opponents who see nothing worth taking will pass, so the card rewards decks that have already dumped something game-ending into the bin.
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 |
Tempt with Immortality is a Commander card in every meaningful sense — the multiplayer math is the entire point, and the more opponents who accept the tempt, the more value you extract. In a four-player pod you're regularly getting two or three creatures back for a single five-mana spell, which no single-player reanimation effect at this cost can match. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; the card's design assumes multiple opponents with stocked graveyards, and one-on-one play strips that advantage entirely. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could see occasional play, but the smaller deck sizes and 20-life totals push players toward faster, more reliable reanimation.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.48 cheap tier
At $1.48, Tempt with Immortality sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to slot in without a second thought for any reanimator build. Casual demand keeps a floor under it, but don't expect movement in either direction; it's too narrow for competitive play and too common in Commander to spike.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.