Kayla's Reconstruction
Sorcery
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put up to X artifact and/or creature cards with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17378
Kayla's Reconstruction lets you dig X cards deep and put up to X artifacts and/or enchantments directly onto the battlefield — the kind of mass-cheat effect white rarely gets at this efficiency. The cost is real: X has to be even, and everything you find enters tapped, so you're not winning the turn you cast it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Kayla's Reconstruction does its best work — the longer games give you time to build up mana for a meaningful X, and artifact-heavy or enchantress strategies can dump half their deck onto the table in a single turn. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically legal but competes against formats where tapping a board of artifacts for a turn is a death sentence, so it sees no meaningful play there. Modern and Pioneer have faster clocks and better cheating options, leaving Kayla's Reconstruction without a home in either. Stick to Commander, specifically any deck that wants to deploy multiple permanents at once and can live with the summoning-sickness clause.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't available in the current snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Kayla's Reconstruction is a niche Commander role-player rather than a cross-format staple, which typically keeps supply healthy and price modest — but verify before assuming it's a bulk pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.