Priest of Fell Rites card art

Priest of Fell Rites

Creature — Human Warlock MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

T, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Unearth 3 ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Combos with Priest of Fell Rites

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Necrotic Ooze Bishop of Wings Maskwood Nexus Lightning Greaves Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Necrotic Ooze Righteous Valkyrie Maskwood Nexus Lightning Greaves Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Body Double Bishop of Wings Maskwood Nexus Lightning Greaves Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Body Double Righteous Valkyrie Maskwood Nexus Lightning Greaves Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Activated Sleeper Bishop of Wings Maskwood Nexus Lightning Greaves Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Activated Sleeper Righteous Valkyrie Maskwood Nexus Lightning Greaves Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Necrotic Ooze Bishop of Wings Xenograft Lightning Greaves Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Necrotic Ooze Righteous Valkyrie Xenograft Lightning Greaves Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-06-18

    If a creature returned to the battlefield by the unearth ability would leave it for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it. In that case, the spell or ability succeeds at exiling the creature. If the spell or ability later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Ephemerate might, for example), the creature card will return as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effect will no longer apply to it.

  • 2021-06-18

    Activating a creature card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting the creature card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the creature card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Cancel) will not.

  • 2021-06-18

    You choose the target of the first ability before paying any of that ability's costs. In other words, you can't choose Priest of Fell Rites itself as the target to bring it back from the graveyard.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Priest of Fell Rites, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 8
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Terra, Herald of Hope 4 0 —
Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 1 —
Raffine, Scheming Seer 1 0 —
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 4 decks
  • Orzhov 1 deck
  • Abzan 1 deck
  • Esper 1 deck

Priest of Fell Rites price history

The Modern Horizons 2 #208 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.38▲ $0.05 (15.2%)
Low $0.33 · High $0.41Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 26, 2026$0.38$4.66
Oct 25, 2026$0.38$4.66
Oct 23, 2026$0.41$4.66
Oct 22, 2026$0.40$4.66
Oct 19, 2026$0.39$4.66
Oct 14, 2026$0.40$4.66
Oct 13, 2026$0.41$4.66
Oct 12, 2026$0.39$4.68
Oct 9, 2026$0.38$4.65
Oct 8, 2026$0.37$4.65
Oct 6, 2026$0.36$4.65
Oct 5, 2026$0.36$4.69
Oct 4, 2026$0.34$4.69
Oct 2, 2026$0.35$4.69
Sep 29, 2026$0.34$4.69
Sep 28, 2026$0.33$4.69

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Priest of Fell Rites

4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Priest of Fell Rites. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.