Campus Renovation
Sorcery
Return up to one target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine: The Aftermath
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13278
Campus Renovation returns two artifacts or enchantments from your graveyard to hand and replaces itself with a draw — three-for-one on board impact before you consider anything else. The cost is five mana at sorcery speed, which is real, but the card advantage makes it a legitimate engine piece rather than a filler recovery spell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival turns artifacts entering the battlefield into additional value, so Campus Renovation restocking two artifacts from the graveyard directly feeds that loop — each recovered piece becomes a fresh trigger waiting to happen.
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 |
Campus Renovation is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it actually sees play are narrow. In Commander it earns its slot in artifact-heavy or enchantment-based graveyard decks that can reliably load the bin and leverage the two-for-one recursion — five mana is acceptable when you're refueling a whole engine. In competitive constructed formats like Modern and Legacy the card is simply too slow; dedicated recursion at two or three mana handles the same job more efficiently. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander logic at a smaller table, and the reduced game length makes the five-mana ask harder to justify unless your gameplan specifically rewards it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Campus Renovation isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current market price. Cards at this utility level in Commander tend to settle in the bulk-to-low-dollar range unless a specific deck pushes demand, so it's unlikely to break the budget.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.