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Myr Retriever

Artifact Creature — Myr

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander 2014
Price
$2.11
EDHREC rank
#879
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Myr Retriever card art
Myr Retriever is a recursive artifact creature that returns any artifact from your graveyard to your hand when it dies — two mana for a body that pays for itself the moment a boardwipe or sacrifice outlet connects. Pair it with Scrap Trawler and you have a cascading value engine; slot it into Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch and it becomes a permanent fixture in a loop that never runs out of gas.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

84.1% of decks · synergy 0.82

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch runs an 84% inclusion rate for Myr Retriever because the deck cycles artifact Myr through sacrifice loops, and a free recursive body that grabs back any piece keeps the engine alive through interaction.

02
Imotekh the Stormlord

Imotekh the Stormlord

73.1% of decks · synergy 0.70

Imotekh the Stormlord's artifact-token gameplan treats Myr Retriever as both a sacrifice fodder piece and a safety valve — when a key artifact gets destroyed, Imotekh decks recover it immediately rather than waiting for another tutor.

03
Gandalf the White

Gandalf the White

66.4% of decks · synergy 0.64

Gandalf the White wants high-value artifacts it can flash back or recur repeatedly, and Myr Retriever slots in as the cheapest, most repeatable way to rebuy those pieces after they've done their work.

04
Daretti, Scrap Savant

Daretti, Scrap Savant

64.0% of decks · synergy 0.61

Daretti, Scrap Savant already loops artifacts through the graveyard, and Myr Retriever accelerates that plan by grabbing back whatever Daretti just wheeled away — two pieces of the same engine reinforcing each other.

05
Oswald Fiddlebender

Oswald Fiddlebender

59.5% of decks · synergy 0.57

Oswald Fiddlebender sacrifices artifacts to tutor up better ones, and Myr Retriever is the perfect sacrifice target — it costs two, recovers something on the way out, and can be rebought after Oswald finds it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the natural home for Myr Retriever: 100-card singleton puts a premium on redundancy and recursion, and a two-mana artifact that recovers any artifact when it dies is exactly the kind of resilience engines need. In Pauper, it's a legitimate combo piece — the Myr Retriever loop with a free sacrifice outlet and cost reducer is a known win condition at common. Modern sees occasional artifact-combo play, though the format's speed means a 1/1 body rarely survives long enough to matter outside dedicated synergy shells. Legacy and Vintage have more efficient recursion options, so Myr Retriever appears only in budget artifact builds where it punches above its weight.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.11 cheap tier

At $2.11, Myr Retriever sits in the cheap tier and has held that range for years across multiple printings — wide availability keeps the floor low but stable. It's an easy include that won't strain any budget, and the price reflects utility rather than scarcity.

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