Buried Ruin
Land
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, , Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Double Masters
- Price
- $1.35
- EDHREC rank
- #197
Buried Ruin trades itself — a land slot — to return any artifact from your graveyard to hand, which means a single board wipe or removal spell never permanently costs you a key piece. The cost is real: you're sacrificing a land, so you only run this in decks where the artifact you're recovering is worth a land drop, and in most artifact-heavy builds, it is.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mishra, Eminent One
Mishra, Eminent One creates artifact tokens from the cards in your hand, so recovering a legendary artifact that died means you get both the original and a hasty warform copy the same turn — Buried Ruin is nearly mandatory at a 67% inclusion rate.
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal cares about junk — artifacts and equipment that go to the graveyard and come back — so Buried Ruin functions as an on-plan recursion engine that doubles as a land until you need it.
Saheeli, the Gifted
Saheeli, the Gifted builds toward expensive artifacts and wants them on the battlefield consistently; Buried Ruin backstops the expensive threats that get answered, letting the ramp Saheeli generates go toward replaying them rather than drawing replacements.
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel helms a Vehicle-heavy gameplan where any single artifact hitting the yard represents a lost crew enabler or finisher; Buried Ruin recovers that piece without demanding additional mana sources.
Daretti, Scrap Savant
Daretti, Scrap Savant already wants artifacts in the graveyard to fuel his own recursion, and Buried Ruin gives the deck a land that converts into a targeted recovery when Daretti has already done his work or been removed — 69% inclusion reflects how seamlessly it fits the gameplan.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Buried Ruin is a Commander staple, full stop — any deck running ten or more artifacts should at minimum consider it, and artifact-centric decks should run it unconditionally. The opportunity cost is low because it enters untapped and produces colorless mana, so it never slows you down before you need the ability. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees no meaningful play; those formats don't want a colorless land with a four-mana activation when faster artifact recursion exists. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton, highlander structure, so the same logic applies there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.35 cheap tier
At $1.35, Buried Ruin sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to slot into any artifact deck without a second thought. It's been reprinted enough to stay in that range, and there's no reason to expect that to change.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.