Graceful Restoration
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
• Return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #17997
Graceful Restoration returns two creatures from your graveyard to the battlefield — one at full power, one as a 1/1 — for five mana at sorcery speed. The split between a real reanimate and a consolation token makes it a role-player at best, not a staple.
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 |
Graceful Restoration is a Commander card and almost nothing else — five mana at sorcery speed is too slow and too clunky for Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where graveyard payoffs need to be faster or more explosive. In Commander, it earns a slot in white-black reanimator shells that want redundancy beyond Reanimate and Unburial Rites, particularly when both targets in the yard are worth grabbing simultaneously. The 1/1 body on the second creature is a genuine downside, but in decks that care about creature count — aristocrats, token doublers, or commanders that reward entering the battlefield — it does real work.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Graceful Restoration is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing more. Bulk rares rarely climb unless a pushed commander makes them mandatory inclusions, and nothing in the current meta is pushing this one.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.