Dearly Departed

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Dearly Departed: Creature - Spirit, Midnight Hunt Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Mana value
6
Type
Creature - Spirit
Colour identity
White (W)
Power / toughness
5/5
Rarity
Rare
Set
Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC)
Released
2021-09-24
Collector number
84
Artist
Daniel Ljunggren
Commander rank
15,988 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying

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About Dearly Departed

Dearly Departed is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white creature from Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC), a Commander product released in September 2021. It is collector number 84 in that set, with art by Daniel Ljunggren. It costs {4}{W}{W} (four generic and two white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/5 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Innistrad (2011) to Tales of Middle-earth Commander (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.24 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Flying

As long as this creature is in your graveyard, each Human creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

"Never forget our ancestors. They have not forgotten us." -Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.24 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Dearly Departed by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Dearly Departed

Dearly Departed has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #165Rare2023
Commander 2020 (C20) #84Rare2020
Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed (DDQ) #6Rare2016
Innistrad (ISD) #9Rare2011

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to Dearly Departed, newest first.

  • The effect is cumulative. Human creatures you control will enter with a +1/+1 counter for each Dearly Departed in your graveyard.
  • In most cases, when determining whether a creature entering under your control should get a +1/+1 counter, you'll simply look at what the creature will looklike on the battlefield. You'll consider any effects affecting a creature entering under your control.

Similar cards

Other creature cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Dearly Departed is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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