Patriarch's Bidding
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 #275 (rare)
- Price
- $3.52 USD
Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Patriarch's Bidding has 4 printings, first in Onslaught (2002). EDHREC ranks it #1,536 among Commander cards. It appears most in The First Sliver decks (6,183 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Patriarch's Bidding most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The First Sliver: 6,183 decks
- Marrow-Gnawer: 5,590 decks
- Be'lakor, the Dark Master: 5,479 decks
- The Ur-Dragon: 4,783 decks
- Edgar Markov: 4,534 decks
- Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir: 3,438 decks
- Lathril, Blade of the Elves: 3,170 decks
- Sliver Overlord: 2,905 decks
Often played with Patriarch's Bidding
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You must choose a creature type, such as Elf or Shaman. You can't choose other card types such as artifact or supertypes such as legendary.
- : The player whose turn it is chooses a creature type first, followed by each other player in turn order. Then, all creature cards that have one or more of the chosen types are returned to the battlefield at the same time.
- : Any player may choose a creature type that's already been chosen. Doing so won't affect which creature cards are returned to the battlefield.
- : Each player may choose any creature type, even if they don't have any creature cards of that type in their graveyard.