Okiba Salvage
Sorcery
Return target creature or Vehicle card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then put two +1/+1 counters on that permanent if you control an artifact and an enchantment.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #19125
Okiba Salvage trades a card for two mana and puts an artifact from your graveyard back on top — solid graveyard recursion stapled to ritual-style acceleration in the same spell. The two-for-one cost structure keeps it out of most competitive lists, but in artifact-heavy Commander decks that want to rebuy key pieces, it pulls real weight.
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 Okiba Salvage has its best case: artifact decks running Daretti, Scrap Savant or Breya, Etherium Shaper can use it to rebuy a key combo piece while bridging to a big turn, and the incidental mana makes the tempo hit feel less punishing. In slower artifact-centric builds the effect is genuinely useful; in faster or more tutor-dense lists, you'd rather just run Goblin Engineer or Trash for Treasure. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage, the card doesn't come close to the bar — those formats have faster, cheaper ways to recur artifacts or generate mana. Modern and Pioneer are similarly uninterested; the effect is too slow and too conditional to compete for a slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Okiba Salvage is deep bulk — you're paying next to nothing for the slot. Bulk rare prices like this don't hold or climb unless the card finds a competitive home, and nothing about its current usage suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.