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Pharika's Mender

Creature — Gorgon

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

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Theros
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#17711
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Pharika's Mender card art
Pharika's Mender returns a creature or enchantment from your graveyard to hand the moment it enters — that's a reusable recursion body on a 4/3 frame, and Kaya's Ghostform turns that enter-the-battlefield trigger into a loop engine. The five-mana cost is real, but in Aphelia, Viper Whisperer decks that want exactly this effect, it earns the slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

16.4% of decks · synergy 0.16

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer cares deeply about creatures and enchantments entering and leaving play, and Pharika's Mender's ETB recursion feeds that loop directly — getting back enchantments to replay them is exactly the kind of redundancy the deck wants.

02
Damia, Sage of Stone

Damia, Sage of Stone

9.7% of decks · synergy 0.10

Damia, Sage of Stone refills your hand to seven each upkeep, which means the card disadvantage of replaying a five-drop matters less, and Pharika's Mender's ability to rebuy key creatures or enchantments from the bin gives the deck a resilient late-game threat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Pharika's Mender is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but outside of Commander it sees essentially no play — five mana for a 4/3 with a single ETB trigger is far below the power bar in competitive 60-card formats. Commander is its home: four-player games give you the time to reach five mana comfortably, and recursion on a body is generically useful in a format full of removal. It fits best in Sultai or Golgari graveyard shells that want redundant ways to rebuy enchantments or creatures without dedicating a spell slot to the effect.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Pharika's Mender is bulk — pick it up in any common-bin sweep without a second thought. Bulk rares rarely climb unless a new commander pushes them into a defined role, so don't expect movement, but at this price the question is never the cost.

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