Recantation
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Return up to X target permanents to their owners' hands, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.46
- EDHREC rank
- #26387
Recantation returns an opponent's permanent to their hand at the end of each of your turns — as many as you keep blue mana open for. The setup cost is real: four mana and sustained mana each upkeep, which makes it a slow engine that folds to pressure rather than a clean answer.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Recantation occupies a niche in dedicated flicker or untap shells where blue mana is abundant and the game goes long enough to lap opponents — it punishes greedy boards but does nothing the turn you play it. Legacy and Vintage are legal but would never run it; the formats move too fast for an enchantment that requires repeated mana investment to generate advantage. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card-adjacent format where Recantation could theoretically appear, though the compressed game length cuts against it there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.46 bulk tier
At $0.46, Recantation is bulk — it has always been, and demand is too narrow to move that needle. Pick it up for a themed build without hesitation; just don't expect the price to appreciate.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.