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Advanced Reconstruction

Enchantment — Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of your first main phase, mill a card, then exile a card from your graveyard at random. You may play the exiled card this turn.
{1}{R}: Level 2
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, this Class deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{1}{R}: Level 3
Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {2} less to cast.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
Price
$0.65
EDHREC rank
#13859
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Advanced Reconstruction card art
Advanced Reconstruction recurs an artifact from your graveyard to your hand at instant speed for two mana — clean, flexible, and exactly what graveyard-loop engines want. Quintorius, History Chaser triggers off spells cast from exile, and Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty rewards spell chains, so Advanced Reconstruction fits both as a low-cost piece that keeps the stack moving.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Quintorius, History Chaser

Quintorius, History Chaser

76.4% of decks · synergy 0.68

Quintorius, History Chaser triggers whenever you cast a spell from exile, and Advanced Reconstruction feeds that engine by recurring the artifacts that fuel future exile-cast sequences — nearly 77% of Quintorius lists run it for exactly that reason.

02
Laelia, the Blade Reforged

Laelia, the Blade Reforged

8.7% of decks · synergy 0.08

Laelia, the Blade Reforged exiles cards from the top of your library and grows whenever you do, so Advanced Reconstruction earns its slot by pulling back artifacts that were milled over or exiled, keeping the resource chain intact.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Advanced Reconstruction is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play. In Legacy and Vintage the artifact recursion landscape is brutal — Replenish, Salvagers loops, and faster engines make a two-mana sorcery-speed (or instant-speed, depending on timing) hand-return look pedestrian. Commander is the natural home: the 100-card singleton format rewards redundancy in recursion, games go long enough for graveyard value to accumulate, and Advanced Reconstruction's low cost keeps it castable off a disrupted mana base. In Oathbreaker it's technically on the table but sees almost no play there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.65 bulk tier

At $0.65, Advanced Reconstruction sits firmly in bulk territory — you're buying it for function, not scarcity. Bulk rares with narrow but real homes in Commander tend to stay flat; don't expect movement unless a future set prints a marquee artifact-graveyard commander that pushes demand.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.