Elven Cache
Sorcery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Classic Sixth Edition
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #21941
Elven Cache returns a card from your graveyard to your hand — nothing more, nothing less — for four mana at sorcery speed. That rate is uncompetitive in every format where graveyard recursion matters, and it rarely earns a slot.
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 |
Elven Cache is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, four mana to put a single card from your graveyard into your hand is a tempo loss when options like Regrowth exist at half the cost. Pauper is the one context where the card pool narrows enough that Elven Cache occasionally surfaces, though even there it sits at the bottom of the recursion stack. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in a sorcery-speed, four-mana do-nothing.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Elven Cache is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price reflects the card's utility accurately, and there's no reason to expect it to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.