Priest of Fell Rites
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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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
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terra, Herald of Hope | 2 | 0 | — |
| Betor, Ancestor's Voice | 1 | 1 | — |
| Zoraline, Cosmos Caller | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mardu 2 decks
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $0.21
- Foil
- —
- Normal
- $0.38
- Foil
- $5.75
Showcase
- Normal
- $0.47
- Foil
- $1.25
Promo
Modern Horizons 2 Promos
- Foil
- $5.46
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 — a name search across every version, for 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.