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Twilight Shepherd

Creature — Angel

Flying, vigilance
When this creature enters, return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{3}{W}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic
Price
$0.82
EDHREC rank
#13673
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Twilight Shepherd card art
Twilight Shepherd returns every permanent you own that was put into a graveyard this turn whenever it enters the battlefield — a full board reversal stapled to a 5/5 flying persist creature. The six-mana cost is steep, but Giada, Font of Hope shaves that meaningfully, and the combination of evasion, persistence, and mass-recursion on a single body is legitimate.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Twilight Shepherd actually gets to do its job — board wipes are everywhere, persist generates repeat value, and Angel tribal lists provide both cost reduction and tribal synergy. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes against formats that end games before a six-mana creature resolves, so it sees essentially no play there. Modern has the same problem: the cost is prohibitive without meaningful ramp, and the effect doesn't line up with what competitive Modern decks are doing. Twilight Shepherd is a Commander card through and through.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.82 bulk tier

At $0.82, Twilight Shepherd sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a genuinely powerful effect. The price reflects low casual demand rather than any weakness in the card itself, so it's an easy pickup that won't strain any budget.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.