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Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

Sorcery // Land

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Zendikar Rising
Price
$7.66
EDHREC rank
#314
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Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary card art
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary earns its slot by pulling any card from your graveyard back to hand while offering an untapped green land when you don't need the recursion — that flexibility alone justifies inclusion. Commanders like Katilda and Lier that flashback spells lean on it hard, and Wort, the Raidmother can conspire the sorcery half to retrieve two cards at once.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Katilda and Lier

Katilda and Lier

28.3% of decks · synergy 0.22

Katilda and Lier cares deeply about every instant and sorcery in the graveyard, and Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary doubles as both a recursion piece and a land drop — exactly the kind of card Katilda and Lier wants to flashback later for maximum value.

05
Wort, the Raidmother

Wort, the Raidmother

21.4% of decks · synergy 0.11

Wort, the Raidmother's conspire ability copies sorceries when you tap two red or green creatures, turning Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary into a two-for-one that retrieves a key piece and a backup in a single cast.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary does its best work — 100-card singleton formats punish you for running narrow recursion, and a card that moonlights as a Forest solves that problem cleanly. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes with faster, more mana-efficient options, but graveyard-centric or land-matters shells still pick it up as a flex slot. Legacy and Vintage have better tools at every step of the curve, so it rarely appears there outside niche brews. The MDFC land mode matters most in any format where early development is tight and you'd otherwise mulligan for land count.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

124 decks
Wort, the RaidmotherStorm-Kiln ArtistChatterstormBala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged SanctuaryRegrowth

Wort, the RaidmotherStorm-Kiln ArtistChatterstormBala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged SanctuaryRegrowth

Infinite casts of green instants and sorceries in your hand and graveyard; Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite Treasure tokens

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If you want cheaper recursion without the land upside, Reclaim does the job for a fraction of the cost — it puts the card on top of your library rather than your hand, which is a meaningful downgrade, but costs almost nothing. Nissa's Pilgrimage and Kodama's Reach don't replace Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary's graveyard mode at all, so if recursion is the primary reason you're running it, there's no clean budget swap — you're paying for the flexibility of the MDFC, and that combination doesn't have a true like-for-like at a lower price.

Price Context

Current price

$7.66 mid tier

At $7.66, Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary sits in the mid-tier range where you're paying a small premium for a card that does two distinct things well. It's widely played enough that the price is stable — this isn't a spec target, it's a staple with consistent demand across multiple Commander archetypes.

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