Oracle's Restoration
Sorcery
Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. You draw a card and gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #19047
Oracle's Restoration puts a card from any graveyard onto the top of its owner's library — a unique recursion angle that can fuel draw-matters payoffs or reset a key piece — and it costs three mana at instant speed. The Howling Abomination is the obvious home, but anywhere you want to manipulate what gets drawn next, this earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Howling Abomination
The Howling Abomination forces each player to draw on upkeep, so stacking Oracle's Restoration to put a threat back on top of your own library turns that mandatory draw into free card selection — you're never topdeck-reliant when you can reload at instant speed the turn before.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Oracle's Restoration slots into any deck that cares about what's on top of the library — The Howling Abomination shells being the clearest fit, but topdeck-manipulation commanders and wheels strategies find value here too. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Legacy it's too narrow; targeted graveyard recursion that doesn't immediately affect the board at three mana doesn't clear the bar when faster options exist. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where Oracle's Restoration could occasionally see fringe play in grind-heavy blue decks, but it's still competing with more efficient card selection. Standard legality makes it accessible to newer players experimenting with graveyard synergies, even if the ceiling there is modest.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Oracle's Restoration is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box or as a throw-in before you'd ever pay for a single copy. Bulk rares with niche applications rarely climb unless a specific commander breaks out, so don't expect movement unless The Howling Abomination or a similar engine spikes in popularity.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.