Unfinished Business
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return up to two target Aura and/or Equipment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature. (If the Auras can't enchant that creature, they remain in your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine Commander
- Price
- $1.16
- EDHREC rank
- #4041
Unfinished Business returns a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield and reattaches any number of Auras and Equipment from your graveyard onto it — all for four mana at sorcery speed. Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER decks in particular treat it as a second copy of their best recursive line, and any deck stacking Auras or Equipment onto a single threat will find it pulls double duty that most reanimation spells simply can't match.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER is all about suiting up one creature with multiple pieces, so Unfinished Business effectively reconstructs the entire package after a board wipe — creature and equipment both — in a single card.
Ellivere of the Wild Court
Ellivere of the Wild Court builds around stacking Auras onto creatures for Role tokens, and Unfinished Business recovers the full enchanted-creature package from the graveyard rather than forcing Ellivere to reattach Auras one by one.
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary cares about equipping creatures efficiently, and Unfinished Business lets that deck recover a key equipped threat without spending extra mana re-equipping after removal.
Gylwain, Casting Director
Gylwain, Casting Director generates Role Auras that pile onto creatures, making Unfinished Business a clean recovery spell that rebinds those Roles after a sweeper.
Amy Rose
Amy Rose decks lean on equipping creatures with Hammers and similar weapons, and Unfinished Business gets both the creature and the attached Equipment back in one shot when the board gets wiped.
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 |
Unfinished Business is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play. In Legacy and Vintage the four-mana sorcery speed is a liability — those formats demand faster reanimation and have no use for the Equipment/Aura rebinding clause. Commander is the clear home: games go longer, graveyards fill naturally, and the clause that returns Auras and Equipment alongside the creature is a genuine card-advantage engine rather than a marginal upside. In Oathbreaker it's playable in the right signature-spell shell, though the slower format still makes the sorcery speed cost easier to pay.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.16 cheap tier
At $1.16, Unfinished Business sits comfortably in the cheap tier — a near-free inclusion for any Commander deck that runs creatures with Auras or Equipment. Demand is driven almost entirely by Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER, so the price is unlikely to spike beyond that community's purchasing patterns, but it's not going to get cheaper either given its high inclusion rate there.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
- Ellivere of the Wild Court
- Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
- Gylwain, Casting Director
- Amy Rose
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.