Unbreakable Bond
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #14302
Unbreakable Bond returns a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter and lifelink attached — relevant stats, not just a body — for five mana at sorcery speed. It's a solid reanimation spell in grindy white decks, but Scholar of the Ages already costs five and comes back on its own; Bond needs to clear a higher bar than that to earn a slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Unbreakable Bond lives and dies in Commander, where five-mana sorceries have room to breathe and reanimating a single high-value creature can swing a game. The lifelink counter is a nice bonus in slower pods, and white's limited graveyard recursion makes any unconditional reanimate worth considering. Outside of Commander, it can't compete — Modern and Legacy have Unearth, Persist, and Reanimate doing more for less, and Pioneer's reanimator shells prefer cheaper or more explosive options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Scholar of the AgesBurnt OfferingUnbreakable Bond
Infinite black mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite red mana; Infinite storm count; Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
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Scholar of the AgesSacrificeUnbreakable Bond
Infinite black mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
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Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Unbreakable Bond is pure bulk — easy to pick up as a budget slot-filler. Bulk reanimate spells without eternal-format demand rarely move off the floor, so this price is the ceiling as much as the floor.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.