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Phyrexian Reclamation

Enchantment

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Jumpstart
Price
$3.83
EDHREC rank
#922
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Phyrexian Reclamation card art
Phyrexian Reclamation turns any black deck into a creature-recursion engine for one black mana and two life per creature — cheap enough to activate multiple times in a turn cycle. Commanders like Teval, the Balanced Scale, who want specific creatures back from the graveyard repeatedly, and Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder, who generates tokens that die constantly, get outsized value from a one-mana enchantment that never leaves the battlefield.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Teval, the Balanced Scale

Teval, the Balanced Scale

50.6% of decks · synergy 0.43

Teval, the Balanced Scale oscillates between life gain and graveyard interaction, and Phyrexian Reclamation plugs directly into that loop — returning key creatures to hand keeps the trigger engine fed without relying on additional reanimation spells.

02
Phage the Untouchable

Phage the Untouchable

44.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Phage the Untouchable can't be reanimated through most conventional means without losing the game, so Phyrexian Reclamation's return-to-hand clause is one of the cleanest ways to recover her after a board wipe.

03
Mishra, Claimed by Gix

Mishra, Claimed by Gix

25.8% of decks · synergy 0.22

Mishra, Claimed by Gix wants the same creatures hitting the battlefield repeatedly to stack meld triggers and drain effects, and Phyrexian Reclamation provides that recursion at a life cost that the deck's life-draining gameplan easily offsets.

04
Imotekh the Stormlord

Imotekh the Stormlord

29.7% of decks · synergy 0.20

Imotekh the Stormlord cares about Necrons dying and entering the battlefield, so Phyrexian Reclamation acts as a repeatable engine to recast key Necron pieces and retrigger their enter-the-battlefield and death effects.

05
Bane, Lord of Darkness

Bane, Lord of Darkness

19.0% of decks · synergy 0.17

Bane, Lord of Darkness punishes opponents whenever creatures die, and Phyrexian Reclamation lets you rebuy your own high-value creatures to sacrifice or block again, doubling up on the death triggers that fuel Bane's strategy.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Phyrexian Reclamation earns its slot — a one-mana enchantment that recovers any creature for two life is exactly the kind of low-opportunity-cost resilience that grindy black strategies want over a long multiplayer game. Legacy and Vintage legality is largely academic; the effect is too slow and too incremental to compete in those formats where the game ends before recursion accrues value. Oathbreaker sees it occasionally in black shells that want to protect a specific creature, but the singleton format's faster pace dulls the engine somewhat. The card is purpose-built for Commander's longer games and higher creature-death rates.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.83 cheap tier

At $3.83, Phyrexian Reclamation sits in the cheap tier for a repeatable, permanent-based recursion effect that would slot into almost any black Commander deck. That price is stable — it sees enough Commander demand to hold value without being the kind of splashy mythic that spikes and crashes.

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