Fix What's Broken
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Return each artifact and creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #15781
Fix What's Broken destroys a creature and gains you life equal to its toughness — a two-for-one on a single card that pulls double duty in any lifegain shell. At three mana in black-white, it's efficient enough to run alongside premium removal, and Amalia Benavides Aguirre decks want every lifegain trigger they can get.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Amalia Benavides Aguirre
Amalia Benavides Aguirre's engine fires on every lifegain trigger, so Fix What's Broken does two jobs at once: it clears a blocker and advances the loop, making it one of the cleaner utility pieces in the 99.
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim converts every life-gain event into drain damage, so Fix What's Broken pulling a high-toughness creature translates directly into lost life for opponents — removal that doubles as a threat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Fix What's Broken is legal across every major constructed format but has found its real home in Commander, where the lifegain trigger matters more than the speed of the removal. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, three mana is too slow for unconditional creature removal when Fatal Push and March of Otherworldly Light exist, so it won't see serious play there. In Commander, the lifegain rider is a genuine incentive for Orzhov lifegain decks — the floor is still a removal spell, and the ceiling is a combo enabler. Oathbreaker follows the same logic: playable in a dedicated lifegain shell, redundant elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Fix What's Broken sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up and easy to cut without regret. Bulk enchantments in narrow archetypes rarely climb unless the archetype spikes in popularity, so treat this as a functional role-player rather than a hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.