Brilliant Restoration
Sorcery
Return all artifact and enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos
- Price
- $1.28
- EDHREC rank
- #2182
Brilliant Restoration returns every enchantment and equipment from your graveyard to the battlefield at once — a full board reconstruction in a single spell. Seven mana is steep, but Encroaching Mycosynth or Garnet, Princess of Alexandria decks that trade early resources for late-game explosions will cash this check without blinking.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Garnet, Princess of Alexandria
Garnet, Princess of Alexandria churns through equipment aggressively enough that a Brilliant Restoration in the late game can reconstruct a fully-armed board in one shot, turning a cleared battlefield back into a win condition immediately.
Narci, Fable Singer
Narci, Fable Singer leans on sagas and enchantments as fuel, and Brilliant Restoration converts a graveyard full of spent enchantments into a second wave that reloads every trigger engine at once.
Shorikai, Genesis Engine
Shorikai, Genesis Engine decks accumulate equipment over many turns, so Brilliant Restoration after a board wipe is less a recovery spell and more a one-card rebuild that puts Shorikai back online with a full kit.
Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice auras go to the graveyard fast under removal pressure, and Brilliant Restoration snaps the entire aura package back onto the battlefield in one motion — often representing more power than the original setup.
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe rewards stacking equipment triggers, and Brilliant Restoration functions as the deck's insurance policy: one seven-mana spell undoes a full sweep and restores every equipped piece simultaneously.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Brilliant Restoration lives — the format's longer games give you time to build the graveyard that makes a mass-return worthwhile, and the seven-mana price tag is far less punishing when you're curving into turn seven with mana rocks. In competitive formats like Modern or Legacy, it's legal but effectively unplayable; the cost is prohibitive and the payoff too slow against decks that win on turn three or four. Pioneer offers some enchantment-heavy midrange shells that could theoretically support it, but the card sees essentially no play there in practice. Oathbreaker inherits Commander's slower pace and could use it in the same enchantment- or equipment-heavy builds, though the reduced deck size tightens the window considerably.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Encroaching MycosynthArchaeomancerBrilliant RestorationPhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Encroaching MycosynthDualcaster MageBrilliant RestorationAltar of Dementia
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mill; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-mill; Put all nonland permanents in your graveyard and library onto the battlefield
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Current price
$1.28 cheap tier
At $1.28, Brilliant Restoration sits squarely in bulk-rare territory — cheap enough to pick up without a second thought for any deck that wants it. That price reflects real but narrow demand; it's not a card that pressures you to buy in early.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.