Yuna, Hope of Spira
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric
During your turn, Yuna and enchantment creatures you control have trample, lifelink, and ward 
.
At the beginning of your end step, return up to one target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $9.04
- EDHREC rank
- #4651
Yuna, Hope of Spira puts a Saga engine on the board that generates recurring value every upkeep, and the Second Chance interaction — resetting a Saga to replay its chapters — is one of the cleanest infinite-trigger lines in white-blue. The cost is real: five mana is a lot to invest in a creature that needs a turn to get going, and Garnet, Princess of Alexandria shells aside, she's slower than most competitive tables will tolerate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Garnet, Princess of Alexandria
Garnet, Princess of Alexandria is the natural home — Garnet rewards stacking Sagas and Yuna, Hope of Spira adds a recurring Saga trigger engine that feeds directly into Garnet's chapter-count payoffs, making the two a near-mandatory pairing in that shell.
Terra, Magical Adept
Terra, Magical Adept cares about enchantments entering and leaving, and Yuna, Hope of Spira's Saga loop generates a steady stream of enchantment triggers that Terra can convert into damage and card advantage.
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe builds around Sagas going to the graveyard and being replayed, so Yuna, Hope of Spira's ability to reset Saga counters extends the recursion lines Sigurd already wants to run.
Narci, Fable Singer
Narci, Fable Singer drains opponents when Sagas complete, and Yuna, Hope of Spira lets you replay final chapters — turning each Saga into a repeatable drain trigger rather than a one-shot effect.
Tom Bombadil
Tom Bombadil tutors a Saga when a Saga's final chapter triggers, and Yuna, Hope of Spira's reset ability means you can chain that tutor effect across multiple turns without needing additional setup.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Yuna, Hope of Spira actually lives — the singleton format's slower pace gives her enough time to get her engine running, and the Saga density in dedicated enchantment or Final Fantasy-themed builds makes the chapter-reset ability genuinely threatening. In competitive Commander she's too slow and too telegraphed; opponents will remove her before the loop pays off. Standard, Pioneer, and Modern are all legal formats, but five-mana creatures that don't immediately win the game face a brutal bar in those formats, and the Saga payoff requires too much supporting infrastructure to assemble consistently. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander constructed variant where she could find a niche, pairing as a signature spell or supporting piece in a Saga-heavy shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If you want the Saga-reset effect on a budget, Ajani's Chosen and Eidolon of Blossoms cover the enchantress draw side of what Yuna, Hope of Spira does without the five-mana body, though neither resets chapter counters — that specific interaction has no true budget replacement. For pure Saga recursion, Heirloom Mirror and similar graveyard-return effects approximate the value loop at a fraction of the cost, but you lose the on-demand reset and have to rebuild the engine each cycle.
Price Context
Current price
$9.04 mid tier
At $9.04, Yuna, Hope of Spira sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to be a deliberate include, cheap enough that it's not a barrier for most Commander players. It's a Final Fantasy crossover card in a dedicated archetype, so the price is driven as much by IP appeal as raw power; if the Saga decks fall out of favor, it could soften.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Second Chance
- Garnet, Princess of Alexandria
- Terra, Magical Adept
- Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe
- Narci, Fable Singer
- Tom Bombadil
- Solemnity
- Clockspinning
- Hex Parasite
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.