Priest of Fell Rites
Priest of Fell Rites: Creature - Human Warlock, Modern Horizons 2. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {W}{B}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Creature - Human Warlock
- Colour identity
- White and black (WB)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
- Released
- 2021-06-18
- Collector number
- 208
- Artist
- Pauline Voss
- Commander rank
- 2,622 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Unearth
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About Priest of Fell Rites
Priest of Fell Rites is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white and black creature from Modern Horizons 2 (MH2), a draft-focused set released in June 2021. It is collector number 208 in that set, with art by Pauline Voss. It costs {W}{B} (one white and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is white and black. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Modern Horizons 2 (2021) to Final Fantasy Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.40 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({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.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.40 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Priest of Fell Rites by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Priest of Fell Rites
Priest of Fell Rites has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) #328 | Rare | 2025 |
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #707 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #372 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 Promos (PMH2) #208s | Rare | 2021 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Priest of Fell Rites, newest first.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Similar cards
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In these precons
Priest of Fell Rites is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.