Turn the Earth

In Commander, Turn the Earth fills a narrow slot: graveyard hate that doubles as recursion insurance, relevant against reanimator, Flashback loops, and self-mill strategies that close games off the bin. Competitive tables rarely reach for it when Tormod's Crypt and Rest in Peace exist, but casual pods where permanent hate feels antisocial make Turn the Earth a softer option that preserves relationships without doing nothing. In Legacy and Vintage the effect is too low-impact — those formats demand hate that sticks or exiles, not a one-shot shuffle. Modern and Pioneer have the same problem: graveyard decks are fast enough that a single sorcery-speed-adjacent instant that doesn't exile rarely shifts the game state enough to matter.