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Portal of Sanctuary

Artifact

{1}, {T}: Return target creature you control and each Aura attached to it to their owners' hands. Activate only during your turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Core Set 2020
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#17577
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Portal of Sanctuary card art
Portal of Sanctuary gives you a repeatable, once-per-turn bounce on your own creature at instant speed for zero mana after the initial two-drop investment — that's the whole pitch. Anything with a powerful enters-the-battlefield trigger, up to and including Wormfang Manta loops, runs this card.

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

Commander is where Portal of Sanctuary lives — the ETB-matters density in the format is high enough that a free, repeatable bounce engine earns its slot in a wide range of decks. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but competes with far more efficient interaction, and the payoff requires building around it in a way those formats rarely reward. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's singleton ETB texture that the card is playable there too. Outside of dedicated ETB loops, Portal of Sanctuary is a Commander card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Portal of Sanctuary is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the card. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications tend to stay at the floor unless a new commander pushes the archetype, so don't expect movement, but at this price there's no reason not to pick up copies for any ETB deck you're building.

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