Frantic Salvage
Instant
Put any number of target artifact cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #21652
Frantic Salvage puts any number of artifacts from your graveyard back on top of your library for a single white mana at instant speed — the ceiling is high, the floor is recovering one piece you can't afford to lose. It's a niche card that earns its slot only in decks that churn artifacts into the graveyard fast enough to make the library-not-hand clause acceptable.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Frantic Salvage has any real home, specifically in artifact-heavy builds that self-mill or sacrifice repeatedly — think Daretti, Scrap Savant or Breya, Etherium Shaper shells where the graveyard fills naturally. In Pauper it's legal but competes with more direct recursion options and rarely makes the cut. Legacy and Vintage have access to so many broken artifact recursion effects that Frantic Salvage doesn't register. The instant speed is the card's best argument in any format — responding to a graveyard exile effect to stack your draws is a real use case, even if it's a narrow one.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Frantic Salvage is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that will sit in binders until someone builds the exact deck that wants it. Price is stable by default at this floor; there's no demand pressure to push it anywhere.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.