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Valkyrie's Call

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken, non-Angel creature you control dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it. It has flying and is an Angel in addition to its other types.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
Foundations Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#5399
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Valkyrie's Call card art
Valkyrie's Call puts a massive board presence into play the moment it resolves — the payoff is immediate and hard to ignore. The cost is real though: it lives or dies by how efficiently your deck pairs it with enablers like Thurid, Mare of Destiny, and it demands a dedicated build rather than a splash. If you're running Infernal Vessel lines, this is the finisher that closes the loop.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Thurid, Mare of Destiny

Thurid, Mare of Destiny

29.4% of decks · synergy 0.27

Thurid, Mare of Destiny is the natural home for Valkyrie's Call — Thurid's ability to generate and leverage counters maps directly onto what the Call demands, and nearly 30% of Thurid decks have already made that connection.

02
Zur, Eternal Schemer

Zur, Eternal Schemer

24.0% of decks · synergy 0.23

Zur, Eternal Schemer reaches for Valkyrie's Call because enchantment synergy is Zur's whole game plan, and the Call slots into that shell as a high-impact payoff that Zur can reliably find and deploy.

05
Bane, Lord of Darkness

Bane, Lord of Darkness

12.0% of decks · synergy 0.11

Bane, Lord of Darkness leans on forced sacrifice and attrition, and Valkyrie's Call punishes opponents for the creatures already leaving the battlefield that Bane's gameplan encourages.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Valkyrie's Call earns its slot in dedicated life-gain and counter-doubling builds — it's a high-ceiling, low-floor card that rewards you for building around it and punishes you for treating it as a generic finisher. In competitive Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's legal but largely absent from the meta; the effect is too slow and setup-dependent for most sixty-card environments where games end before a six-mana sorcery can take over. Standard legality keeps it theoretically playable, but the same problem applies at smaller scale. Valkyrie's Call is a Commander card first, everything else a distant second.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Valkyrie's Call isn't currently available in our database, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live market rate. Given that it's a build-around with a narrow home, supply and demand tend to keep niche cards like this accessible — but verify before you buy.

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