Ally To Battlefield (1)
Any Card To Battlefield (Aristocrats Theme) (1)
Any Card To Hand (31)
- 1x False Mourning
- 1x Forgotten Lore
- 1x Noxious Revival
- 1x Recall
- 1x Reclaim
- 1x Salvage
- 1x Shrouded Lore
- 1x Wildest Dreams
- 1x Nostalgic Dreams
- 1x Reap
- 1x Regrowth
- 1x Treasured Find
- 1x Bala Ged Recovery Flip
- 1x Eternal Witness
- 1x Hag Hedge-Mage
- 1x Holistic Wisdom
- 1x Magus of the Will
- 1x Naya Charm
- 1x Recollect
- 1x Skullwinder
- 1x Yawgmoth's Will
- 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
- 1x Once and Future
- 1x Restock
- 1x Yawgmoth's Agenda
- 1x Seasons Past
- 1x Bound / Determined
- 1x Charnelhoard Wurm
- 1x Down / Dirty
- 1x Seeds of Renewal
- 1x Praetor's Counsel
Any Card To Hand (Bolas Theme) (1)
Arcane Card To Hand (1)
Arcane To Hand (1)
Artifact, Creature, Or Enchantment To Hand (1)
Artifact, Instant, Or Sorcery To Stack (1)
Artifact Creature To Battlefield (1)
Artifact Creature To Hand (1)
Artifact Or Creature To Battlefield (1)
Artifact Or Creature To Hand (2)
Artifact Or Enchantment (Aristocrats Theme) (1)
Artifact Or Enchantment Or Planeswalker To Battlefield (1)
Artifact Or Enchantment To Battlefield (2)
Artifact Or Enchantment To Hand (3)
Artifact To Battlefield (12)
-
1x
Goblin Welder
- 1x Goblin Engineer
- 1x Trash for Treasure
- 1x Argivian Restoration
- 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
- 1x Refurbish
- 1x Scrap Mastery
- 1x Sharuum the Hegemon
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1x
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
- 1x Roar of Reclamation
- 1x Scholar of the Lost Trove
- 1x Bringer of the White Dawn
Artifact To Hand (16)
- 1x Academy Ruins
- 1x Buried Ruin
- 1x Drafna's Restoration
- 1x Reconstruction
- 1x Ritual of Restoration
- 1x Rootwater Diver
- 1x Salvage Scout
- 1x Archaeomender
- 1x Argivian Archaeologist
- 1x Glissa, the Traitor *oversized*
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1x
Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
- 1x Treasure Hunter
- 1x Trusty Packbeast
- 1x Arcbound Reclaimer
- 1x Frantic Salvage
- 1x Trading Post
Artifact To Hand (Aristocrats Theme) (3)
Aura Or Creature To Battlefield (1)
Aura Or Equipment To Hand (2)
Aura To Battlefield (5)
Bird To Battlefield (1)
Black Creature Or Red Creature To Battlefield (1)
Black Creature To Hand (1)
Blue Instant Or Red Sorcery To Hand (1)
Changeling To Battlefield (1)
Cleric To Battlefield (1)
Cleric To Hand (1)
Colored Card To Hand (1)
Creature Or Enchantment To Hand (1)
Creature Or Land To Hand (6)
- 1x Crop Sigil
- 1x Grapple with the Past
- 1x Grim Discovery
- 1x Roots of Wisdom
- 1x The Binding of the Titans
- 1x Sudden Reclamation
Creature Or Planeswalker To Battlefield (3)
Creature Or Planeswalker To Hand (4)
Creature To Battlefield (75)
- 1x Port of Karfell
- 1x Reanimate
- 1x Animate Dead
- 1x Apprentice Necromancer
- 1x Dance of the Dead
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1x
Exhume
- 1x Finale of Eternity
- 1x Soul Exchange
- 1x Stitch Together
- 1x Wake the Dead
- 1x Agadeem's Awakening Flip
- 1x Coffin Queen
- 1x Doomed Necromancer
- 1x Entreat the Dead
- 1x Footsteps of the Goryo
- 1x Life / Death
- 1x Necromancy
- 1x Obsessive Stitcher
- 1x Pulsemage Advocate
- 1x Victimize
- 1x Blood for Bones
- 1x Breath of Life
- 1x Cabal Surgeon
- 1x Dread Return
- 1x False Defeat
- 1x Hell's Caretaker
- 1x Makeshift Mannequin
- 1x Marshal's Anthem
- 1x Resurrection
- 1x Strands of Night
- 1x Vigor Mortis
- 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
- 1x Yore-Tiller Nephilim
- 1x Zombify
- 1x Bond of Revival
- 1x Cauldron's Gift
- 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
- 1x Defy Death
- 1x Extract from Darkness
- 1x Fearsome Awakening
- 1x Hymn of Rebirth
- 1x Infernal Offering
- 1x Karmic Guide
- 1x Kenrith, the Returned King
- 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
- 1x Living Death
- 1x Miraculous Recovery
- 1x Necromantic Summons
- 1x Nethroi, Apex of Death
- 1x Phyrexian Delver
- 1x Return Upon the Tide
- 1x Rise Again
- 1x Rise from the Grave
- 1x Tempt with Immortality
- 1x Torrent of Souls
- 1x Unbreakable Bond
- 1x Unburial Rites
- 1x Back for More
- 1x Betrayal of Flesh
- 1x Cauldron Dance
- 1x Dawnbreak Reclaimer
- 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
- 1x Endless Obedience
- 1x Ever After
- 1x Magister of Worth
- 1x Pyrrhic Revival
- 1x Teneb, the Harvester
- 1x Twilight's Call
- 1x Boneyard Parley
- 1x Debtors' Knell
- 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
- 1x Breaking / Entering
- 1x Connive / Concoct
- 1x Reya Dawnbringer
- 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
Creature To Battlefield (Aristocrats Theme) (4)
Creature To Battlefield (Evasive Creature Theme) (1)
Creature To Battlefield (Mono-White) (1)
Creature To Battlefield (Tokens Theme) (1)
Creature To Battlefield (Tribal Cleric Theme) (1)
Creature To Battlefield (Tribal Rogue Theme) (1)
Creature To Battlefield (Tribal Theme) (2)
Creature To Battlefield (Tribal Warrior Theme) (1)
Creature To Battlefield (Tribal Wizard Theme) (1)
Creature To Battlefield (Tribal Zombie Theme) (1)
Creature To Hand (47)
- 1x Mortuary Mire
- 1x Volrath's Stronghold
- 1x Blood Beckoning
- 1x Disentomb
- 1x Ghoulcaller's Chant
- 1x March of the Drowned
- 1x Omen of the Dead
- 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
- 1x Raise Dead
- 1x Reinforcements
- 1x Return to Battle
- 1x Soul Stair Expedition
- 1x Soul Strings
- 1x Stir the Grave
- 1x Tortured Existence
- 1x Death Denied
- 1x Forever Young
- 1x Macabre Waltz
- 1x Oath of Ghouls
- 1x Oversold Cemetery
- 1x Rally the Ancestors
- 1x Shattered Crypt
- 1x Survivors' Bond
- 1x Undertaker
- 1x Bone Harvest
- 1x Death's Duet
- 1x Footbottom Feast
- 1x Gravepurge
- 1x Hua Tuo, Honored Physician
- 1x Immortal Servitude
- 1x Morbid Plunder
- 1x Reaping the Graves
- 1x Soul Salvage
- 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
- 1x Wander in Death
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1x
Chainer, Nightmare Adept
- 1x Empty the Catacombs
- 1x Midnight Recovery
- 1x Havengul Lich
- 1x Palace Siege
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1x
Ravos, Soultender *f-etch*
- 1x Woebearer
- 1x Wretched Confluence
- 1x Soulquake
- 1x Find / Finality
- 1x Karador, Ghost Chieftain
- 1x Sibsig Muckdraggers
Creature To Hand (2-Drop Theme) (1)
Creature To Hand (Aristocrats Theme) (1)
Creature To Hand (Big Creatures Theme) (1)
Creature To Hand (Changeling Theme) (1)
Creature To Hand (Mono-Black) (1)
Creature To Hand (Mutate Theme) (1)
Creature To Hand (Tokens Theme) (2)
Creature To Hand (Tribal Theme) (4)
Dragon To Hand (1)
Elemental To Battlefield (1)
Elf To Battlefield (1)
Enchantment Creature To Hand (1)
Enchantment To Battlefield (5)
- 1x Ghen, Arcanum Weaver
- 1x Replenish
- 1x Starfield of Nyx
- 1x Archon of Falling Stars
- 1x Silent Sentinel
Enchantment To Hand (6)
- 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
- 1x Rofellos's Gift
- 1x Tragic Poet
- 1x Auramancer
- 1x Crystal Chimes
- 1x Monk Idealist
Equipment To Battlefield (2)
Goblin To Hand (2)
Green Card To Hand (1)
Human To Battlefield (1)
Instant Or Sorcery To Hand (17)
- 1x Flood of Recollection
- 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy Flip
- 1x Mission Briefing
- 1x Snapcaster Mage
- 1x Bloodwater Entity
- 1x Call to Mind
- 1x Lore Drakkis
- 1x Relearn
- 1x Shreds of Sanity
- 1x Bond of Insight
- 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
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1x
Past in Flames
- 1x Pull from the Deep
- 1x Backdraft Hellkite
- 1x Dralnu, Lich Lord
- 1x Metallurgic Summonings
- 1x The Mirari Conjecture
Instant Or Sorcery To Hand (Mono-Blue) (1)
Instant Or Sorcery To Stack (5)
- 1x Finale of Promise
- 1x Mizzix's Mastery
- 1x Sins of the Past
- 1x Scholar of the Lost Trove
- 1x Mnemonic Deluge
Instant To Hand (1)
Instant To Stack (1)
Instant To Stack (Sorcery Theme) (1)
Knight To Battlefield (1)
Knight To Hand (1)
Land To Battlefield (7)
- 1x Restore
- 1x Splendid Reclamation
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1x
Lord Windgrace
- 1x Quarry Beetle
- 1x The Mending of Dominaria
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1x
Titania, Protector of Argoth
- 1x Molderhulk
Land To Battlefield (Aristocrats Theme) (1)
Land To Battlefield (Vehicles Theme) (1)
Land To Hand (9)
- 1x Petrified Field
- 1x Glowspore Shaman
- 1x Life from the Loam
- 1x Wrenn and Six
- 1x Cartographer
- 1x Crucible of Worlds
- 1x Ramunap Excavator
- 1x Stoic Builder
- 1x Tilling Treefolk
Legendary Card To Hand (1)
Legendary Creature To Battlefield (2)
Legendary Permanent To Battlefield (1)
Multicolored Card To Hand (2)
Nonland Permanent To Battlefield (Mono-White) (1)
Nonland Permanent To Hand (1)
Permanent To Battlefield (3)
Permanent To Battlefield (Cycling Theme) (1)
Permanent To Hand (9)
- 1x Nature's Spiral
- 1x Road of Return
- 1x Fungal Rebirth
- 1x Mythos of Brokkos
- 1x Creeping Renaissance
- 1x Regenesis
- 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
- 1x Verdant Confluence
- 1x Planewide Celebration
Pirate To Battlefield (1)
Small Artifact To Hand (1)
Small Creature To Battlefield (11)
- 1x Unearth
- 1x Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
- 1x Call of the Death-Dweller
- 1x Claim / Fame
- 1x Devoted Crop-Mate
- 1x Proclamation of Rebirth
- 1x Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
- 1x Bishop of Rebirth
- 1x Gruesome Menagerie
- 1x Reveillark
- 1x Revival / Revenge
Small Creature To Battlefield (Aristocrats Theme) (1)
Small Creature To Battlefield (Auras Theme) (1)
Small Creature To Battlefield (Evasive Creatures Theme) (1)
Small Creature To Battlefield (Heroic Theme) (1)
Small Creature To Battlefield (Historic Theme) (1)
Small Creature To Hand (6)
- 1x Orzhov Charm
- 1x Necropanther
- 1x Order of Whiteclay
- 1x Vesperlark
- 1x Crypt Champion
- 1x Dusk / Dawn
Small Instant Or Small Sorcery To Hand (1)
Small Instant Or Small Sorcery To Stack (1)
Small Instant Or Sorcery To Hand (1)
Small Noncreature Artifact To Battlefield (1)
Small Noncreature To Battlefield (1)
Small Permanent To Battlefield (5)
- 1x Lurrus of the Dream-Den
- 1x Renegade Rallier
- 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
- 1x Shepherd of the Cosmos
- 1x Sun Titan
Small Permanent To Battlefield (Counters Theme) (1)
Snow Permanent To Battlefield (1)
Sorcery Card To Hand (1)
Sorcery To Hand (2)
Spirit To Hand (2)
Spirit To Hand (Aristocrats Theme) (1)
Vampire To Battlefield (1)
Wizard To Battlefield (1)
Zombie To Battlefield (2)
Zombie To Hand (4)
List of all pertinent recursion in EDH.
What this includes:
- Cards that can return one or more cards from your graveyard to your hand, battlefield, or top of library.
What this doesn't include:
- Cards that only recur one creature to the top of library or hand for more than 1 mana, unless it's a land. This also counts recurring a creature with a maximum converted mana cost on cards that cost more than 1 plus that converted mana cost. If a card gets multiple creature cards, it is not on this list if it costs more than an additional 2 mana per additional creature. In a similar vein, this list is also not including cards that cost 6 mana or more per creature recurred to the battlefield except for instant-speed cards.
- Cards that take a long time to recur cards.
- Cards with massive drawbacks, such as losing the game or losing half your life.
- Cards that exile the creature cards recurred, making them unable to be recurred again.
- Cards that cost more than 3 times the maximum number of cards they can recur to the hand/library.
- Cards that recur cards at random.
- Cards that only recur cards with specific abilities, like Abandoned Sarcophagus and Halimar Tidecaller.
Please suggest recursion spells that fit these parameters, ask about my other helpful resources for EDH, or check out this link to my scryfall search for recursion spells.
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Very nice list! Necromantic Thirst puts creatures in your hand though, not on the battlefield (it's in the wrong category).
November 13, 2020
7 a.m.
Also Stir the Grave returns to the battlefield (not to hand).
November 13, 2020
7:03 a.m.
How is Mnemonic Wall not on this list?
March 30, 2021
9:17 p.m.
Awesome list! Thank you so much for taking the time to compile this, it’s extremely useful.
May 28, 2021
8:48 p.m.
Thanks for the list, though appears to be missing Conqueror's Galleon Flip
August 22, 2021
12:06 a.m.
Fantastic list. Keep up the good work!
October 22, 2021
1:59 a.m.
Diabolic Servitude. No shade, but I'm surprised this one was missed.
February 8, 2022
7:58 p.m.
All Hallow's Eve This is probably the most expensive recursion spell there is.
October 21, 2022
9:17 p.m.
thewhere, oh wow, thanks for catching the white Cavalier! I must have misread the mana cost, because it doesn't meet the parameters either. Removed it, AND Spellpyre Phoenix (same problem). Sorry about that! I know it can be frustrating to see double standards, but I promise it was just a mistake!
Anyways, Lurrus seems perfect, thanks!
June 20, 2020
8:59 p.m.
arcane_trouper, while it's a great tutor, it's actually pretty poor for fulfilling recursion as a primary purpose, since it's basically a two mana Disentomb when it's used for recursion.
June 23, 2020
9:37 a.m.
griffstick, to be fair, green is probably the best color for recursion, so if anything, the bar should be higher for green. There are a plethora of green cards that can recur a creature from your graveyard for 2 mana, but all of them give you strictly more value/versatility. That could be returning any card (Regrowth), returning multiple creatures (Survivors' Bond), or both (Reap).
So as a tutor, it's great (and it's on my tutor list!), but as recursion, there are just too many options that are way better.
June 24, 2020
9:27 a.m.
I hear you but to define it as a Tutor and not recursion is like saying Gisa and Geralf cant be your zombie tribal cmdr because they are not zombies
Its clearly both recursion and tutor, but mostly a tutor. I get it, it's not that good classified as recursion but the added tutor does make it a good card
Let's not forget that if X is 10 or more it can become a win con
June 24, 2020
10:17 a.m.
Edited.
griffstick, the tutor part of it is fantastic! The recursion is not as great. If you are looking at the recursion list and not the tutor list, then you probably don't want it.
June 24, 2020
10:28 a.m.
June 25, 2020
4:29 p.m.
Zeth4, those are prime examples of cards that fail under the last sentence of the first point under "what this list doesn't include": "In a similar vein, this list is also not including cards that cost 7 mana or more per creature recurred to the battlefield."
June 28, 2020
6:43 p.m.
From every single card on your list
The most iconic land recursion card is missing
Crucible of Worlds and somewhat the magus version Ramunap Excavator
If they break I rule I do see it from the list
April 16, 2020
9:29 a.m.
TheDeckMaker2300 they are already on the list
April 16, 2020
2:04 p.m.
thewhere, Cavalier fails under the fifth point under "What this doesn't include" in the description. An effect like that would have to cost 3 to fit on this list.
June 16, 2020
5:19 p.m.
Including the White Cavalier but not the Green & Black ones seems... counter-intuitive.
Yes, I've read the rules.
June 17, 2020
2:03 p.m.
Nissa, Vital Force is a more immediate and more diverse version of Cavalier of Dawn
Also Tamiyo, Collector of Tales would be even cheaper/faster and even more diverse.
June 17, 2020
2:57 p.m.
I would have suggested Sigil of the New Dawn buts it's illegal for the catergory of "recur stuff if it died this turn"
May 16, 2018
9:53 a.m.
It is conditional and requires a mono-black or duel-black opponent, but a card I always sideboard in green in Reap , for only two mana this has been a game-changer for me on many occasions. I have a lot of Golgari and Orzhov in my meta.
June 1, 2018
8:15 a.m.
TheDeckMaker2300, yep, Sigil is exactly unable to fit on this list for that exact reason.
thrane, actually one of the inspirations for this list was to showcase that paying 3 mana to recur one card as being a pretty bad rate of return in comparison to everything that's available, notably Regrowth. Outside of synergies with ETB creatures (which means that E-Witness would be a card that would be good based on the commander strategy specifically, like Ancestral Statue in Animar, Soul of Elements, although not quite to that extreme), Regrowth will always be better since it's 1 mana cheaper.
Oak_Guy I've been considering cards like Reap that only work against certain colors. I'm still on the fence for all cards except ones against blue/islands, because of how common blue decks are, but I'll keep Reap in mind. Thanks!
July 9, 2018
10:55 p.m.
I love the list but you forgot Karmic Guide in the white category
April 25, 2019
11:02 a.m.
nice list! there is a card in Izzet that is real bad but Izzet Chronarch
August 6, 2019
12:03 p.m.
What about Possessed Skaab, Malevolent Awakening, and Relearn?
February 24, 2020
1:59 p.m.
Yawgmoth's Vile Offering While expensive it is creature or planeswalker recursion and removal as well. I think that effect is worth its cost.
March 17, 2020
11:04 a.m.
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TheLegend0713 says... Edit Remove Edit Delete #1
Very thorough list, nicely done. Have you considered adding a section for repeatable effects?
July 23, 2020 8:20 p.m.