Archaeomender
Creature — Human Wizard
When this creature enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #15340
Archaeomender enters the battlefield and immediately returns a land from your graveyard to your hand — real, unconditional value stapled to a body. The cost is a four-mana 2/3 with no evasion, which is acceptable when paired with flicker engines like Displacer Kitten but slow on its own.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Archaeomender actually belongs — flicker and blink strategies run it to chain land recursion off Conjurer's Closet or similar engines, and the body is just acceptable enough to survive a few turns in a multiplayer game. In Legacy and Vintage, it's strictly too slow; a four-mana 2/3 that gets back one land does nothing competitive formats can't handle with cheaper options. Pauper is the one other format where Archaeomender has a theoretical home, specifically in blink shells at common, though the competition for that slot is stiff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Displacer KittenArchaeomenderWelding JarLotus Petal
Infinite colored mana; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Archaeomender is pure bulk — grab a copy for essentially nothing if a flicker deck wants it. That price is stable by definition; bulk commons don't move unless a breakout combo pushes demand, and nothing on the horizon looks likely to do that here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.