Entish Restoration
Instant
Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $3.11
- EDHREC rank
- #426
Entish Restoration puts up to five lands directly onto the battlefield untapped — that's a burst of mana acceleration that can jump you several turns ahead in a single cast. The cost is real: you need forests in the graveyard to fuel it, and Fangorn, Tree Shepherd is the commander most built to guarantee that condition.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd mills forests into the graveyard as a built-in engine, so Entish Restoration reliably returns three to five lands rather than one or two — it's the card the deck was written for.
Tifa Lockhart
Tifa Lockhart rewards explosive mana development, and Entish Restoration's mass land drop can fuel the large power thresholds she needs to trigger her strongest effects.
Titania, Nature's Force
Titania, Nature's Force generates Elemental tokens whenever forests enter the battlefield, so Entish Restoration resolving with four or five targets turns a single spell into a token flood.
Kirri, Talented Sprout
Kirri, Talented Sprout counts land drops to grow counters and trigger abilities, and Entish Restoration compresses multiple land drops into one spell to push those numbers high fast.
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter scales on having lots of lands in play, and Entish Restoration's bulk land recovery closes the gap between mid-game board states and the massive token payoffs Bonny demands.
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 |
Entish Restoration is a Commander card through and through — the payoff scales with graveyard depth and the number of players generating incidental land destruction or self-mill, conditions that arise naturally over a multiplayer game. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana for land recovery is far too slow when those formats are deciding games on turns one through three. Modern could theoretically support it in a self-mill shell, but dedicated land recursion there has cheaper, more redundant options and Entish Restoration's ceiling rarely justifies the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.11 cheap tier
At $3.11, Entish Restoration sits at the cheap end of Commander staples and is a straightforward include for any forest-heavy deck that can fill its graveyard. It holds that price point comfortably given its narrow but genuine role — demand stays steady in Fangorn and Titania builds without broad enough appeal to push it higher.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.