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Sorcery
Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.
"Family plots are so convenient." —Cabal Patriarch
Details
- Rarity
- Rare
- First printed
- Onslaught
- Released
- 2002-10-07
- Artist
- Ben Thompson, Ilse Gort
- Printings
- 2
Prices
- Cheapest legal
- $3.56
- Cheapest foil
- $8.01
TCGplayer market via Scryfall, 2026-10-18; cheapest tournament-legal paper printing.
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Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Patriarch's Bidding (main or sideboard): 4,173 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 0.1%
- +0.1 ppnew
- Play rate · 30d
- 0.1%
- +0.1 pp
- Lists · 90d
- 2
- 100% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 2.0
- when main-decked
Monthly play rate (12 × 30 days)
Nov 22, 2025Oct 18, 2026
Months with few lists are noisy; early months have partial paper coverage.
Most often in (90d)
- Goblins0% of lists · 1
- Unclassified0% of lists · 1
Often played with
Cards most played alongside Patriarch's Bidding in its top archetypes over the last 90 days: Goblins (0%).
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Printings (2)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap the thumbnail to preview a printing; tap the set name to see all cards in that set.
| Printing | Set | USD |
|---|---|---|
 Preview Patriarch's Bidding — Onslaught #161Onslaught | #161 | $9.94 |
 Preview Patriarch's Bidding — Modern Horizons 2 #275Modern Horizons 2 | #275 | $3.56 |
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