Traumatic Revelation
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a creature or battle card from it. If you do, that player discards that card. If you don't, incubate 3. (Create an Incubator token with three +1/+1 counters on it and "
: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #18384
Traumatic Revelation puts three cards into your graveyard and one into your hand — net card-neutral looting at instant speed for two mana. It's a clean enabler for graveyard strategies and nothing else; outside of reanimator or threshold shells it has no business in a deck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Traumatic Revelation earns its slot in dedicated graveyard decks — reanimator, zombie tribal, and Muldrotha-style value engines all want cheap, instant-speed self-mill that replaces itself. In Pauper it competes with Faithless Looting and Strategic Planning at the same cost, and it mostly loses that fight unless the deck specifically needs milling three rather than discarding two. Modern and Legacy have deep enough card pools that Traumatic Revelation rarely makes the cut outside of fringe mill-synergy brews. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: powerful in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Traumatic Revelation sits firmly in bulk territory and is essentially a free include for any graveyard deck shopping a binder or a cheap order filler. Bulk commons at this price point don't move — expect it to stay here indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.