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Mnemonic Wall

Creature — Wall

Defender
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Commander 2013
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#6237
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Mnemonic Wall card art
Mnemonic Wall enters and returns any instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand — a real effect stapled to a 0/5 defender body. The five-mana cost is steep, but in any deck that blinks it repeatedly or draws cards off walls, the Wall pays for itself fast; Ghostly Flicker loops make it outright broken, and Arcades, the Strategist turns that 0/5 into a two-power attacker on top of the recursion.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Arcades, the Strategist

Arcades, the Strategist

32.4% of decks · synergy 0.30

Arcades, the Strategist runs Mnemonic Wall for two independent reasons: it's a 0/5 that draws a card off Arcades's trigger, and it recovers whatever instant or sorcery the deck already spent. That combination of card draw, board presence, and recursion on one card makes it a near-auto-include in the 99.

02
Pramikon, Sky Rampart

Pramikon, Sky Rampart

23.9% of decks · synergy 0.23

Pramikon, Sky Rampart is a Wall commander that wants every defender it can get, so Mnemonic Wall slots in both as a blocker and as a way to rebuy the pillow-fort spells and removal that keep Pramikon's attack-redirection scheme running.

03
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's WardCandlekeep Sage

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage

16.4% of decks · synergy 0.15

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage flickers its own permanents for value, and Mnemonic Wall is a natural fit — every blink nets another instant or sorcery out of the graveyard, letting Abdel chain recursive loops with modest setup.

04
Yorion, Sky Nomad

Yorion, Sky Nomad

12.5% of decks · synergy 0.11

Yorion, Sky Nomad is built to flicker permanents at scale, and Mnemonic Wall is exactly what a Yorion deck wants to flicker: each reset recovers a spell while rebuilding the board, letting the engine compound value every time Yorion connects.

05
Kykar, Zephyr Awakener

Kykar, Zephyr Awakener

9.1% of decks · synergy 0.08

Kykar, Zephyr Awakener cares about noncreature spells and the tokens they generate, so Mnemonic Wall serves as a repeatable spellfuel source — recovering key instants and sorceries keeps Kykar's trigger engine firing without burning through the hand.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Mnemonic Wall is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Oathbreaker, and Vintage, but Commander is where it actually sees play. In Pauper it's a fringe piece in blink shells, where the common card pool makes any repeatable recursion worth a second look. Everywhere else — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage — five mana for a 0/5 with a enters-the-battlefield trigger is too slow and too fragile to compete. Commander is the format that forgives the mana cost, rewards the blink synergy, and gives Mnemonic Wall the long game it needs to matter.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

2,392 decks
DisplacePeregrine DrakeMnemonic Wall

DisplacePeregrine DrakeMnemonic Wall

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Mnemonic Wall is bulk — you'll find it in common boxes or pick it up as a throw-in. Bulk commons with active combo roles tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency to stock up, but at this price you should just own a few copies if you play blink in Commander.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.