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Wight of the Reliquary

Creature — Zombie Knight

Vigilance
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
$3.04
EDHREC rank
#1270
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Wight of the Reliquary card art
Wight of the Reliquary grows by sacrificing creatures or lands, then taps to fetch a land from the graveyard — a self-fueling engine that scales fast and refuels your board. The cost is real: it needs both black and green permanents in the bin to reach full speed, and Retreat to Coralhelm plus Dina, Essence Brewer are the combo payoffs that push it from 'good value' to 'win condition.'

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dina, Essence Brewer

Dina, Essence Brewer

72.7% of decks · synergy 0.62

Dina, Essence Brewer drains opponents whenever you gain life, and Wight of the Reliquary plugs into the Retreat to Coralhelm loop to generate infinite landfall triggers, life gain, and lethal drain without needing any additional pieces beyond those three.

02
The Necrobloom

The Necrobloom

65.3% of decks · synergy 0.54

The Necrobloom puts Zombies into play tapped whenever a land enters from the graveyard, so every activation of Wight of the Reliquary that pulls up a land doubles as a token generator — the loop scales exponentially in the mid-game.

03

Grist, Voracious Larva

54.0% of decks · synergy 0.43

Grist, Voracious Larva runs on a graveyard full of creatures and lands, and Wight of the Reliquary converts that bin into repeated land fetches while growing into a serious threat as the pile accumulates.

04
Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Savra, Queen of the Golgari

51.3% of decks · synergy 0.40

Savra, Queen of the Golgari triggers on every creature sacrifice, so each activation that feeds Wight of the Reliquary can also drain or wipe the board depending on the creature's color — the loop rewards dense sacrifice outputs.

05
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

44.6% of decks · synergy 0.38

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant mills into the graveyard constantly, building the resource pile that Wight of the Reliquary needs to grow large and keep fetching lands turn after turn.

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 Wight of the Reliquary does its best work — long games give the graveyard time to fill, and the Retreat to Coralhelm combo turns a single card into an infinite loop that closes out the table. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but faces a much higher power bar: creature-based engines rarely keep pace with the format's fastest lines, and a two-mana 1/1 that needs setup isn't where those formats want to be. Modern is theoretically accessible, but the combo pieces exist in a crowded field of faster synergies. Wight of the Reliquary is fundamentally a Commander card — the 100-card singleton format is exactly where its self-contained engine and incremental scaling feel most at home.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.04 cheap tier

At $3.04, Wight of the Reliquary sits in the cheap tier and represents strong value for a card that anchors an infinite combo in multiple Golgari-adjacent shells. Demand is steady rather than spikey — it's not a bulk throwaway, but it's not at risk of pricing anyone out of a build.

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