Nostalgic Dreams
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Return X target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Nostalgic Dreams.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #15738
Nostalgic Dreams returns any number of cards from your graveyard to your hand — as many as you want — for the cost of discarding that same number of cards. The catch is real but manageable: in a deck already flooding the yard or running Sergeant John Benton to stockpile cards, paying card-for-card to rebuy your best spells is an engine, not a tax.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sergeant John Benton
Sergeant John Benton draws a card whenever an opponent uses a nonland permanent's activated ability, which means his decks accumulate hand size fast enough to absorb Nostalgic Dreams' discard cost and still come out ahead — cycling back key pieces to recast them is exactly the loop his engine wants.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nostalgic Dreams is a Commander card through and through: its power scales with the size of your graveyard and the density of impactful spells, both of which Commander's 100-card singleton format rewards. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but too slow and too symmetrically costed to compete with cheaper graveyard recursion options in those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander experience closely enough that the same graveyard-dense builds can make it work. Nostalgic Dreams asks you to build around it — that's a fine ask in a 100-card format with a dedicated commander slot, and a bad ask almost everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Price data for Nostalgic Dreams isn't currently available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. It's an older, niche card with a narrow home, so supply tends to be thin — don't expect to find it in bulk bins.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.