Reckless Handling
Sorcery
Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, shuffle, then discard a card at random. If an artifact card was discarded this way, Reckless Handling deals 2 damage to each opponent.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine: The Aftermath
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #2645
Reckless Handling tutors any artifact directly to your hand for two mana — the catch is you discard a card first, which in the right deck is a feature, not a bug. With Zirda, the Dawnwaker halving activated abilities, the discard-and-tutor loop becomes absurdly efficient, but even without cost reduction, two mana for any artifact is a clean rate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zirda, the Dawnwaker
Zirda, the Dawnwaker cuts the cost of Reckless Handling's activated ability in half, turning it into a one-mana artifact tutor that also feeds the graveyard — a package deal this commander wants every time.
Daretti, Scrap Savant
Daretti, Scrap Savant is built around trading cards for artifacts, so the discard Reckless Handling demands isn't a tax — it's synergy, fueling the graveyard for Daretti's -2 while fetching exactly the artifact piece Daretti needs next.
Redshift, Rocketeer Chief
Redshift, Rocketeer Chief cares about artifacts entering play in quick succession, and Reckless Handling provides on-demand access to whatever artifact completes the chain at instant speed.
Yusri, Fortune's Flame
Yusri, Fortune's Flame decks thrive on coin-flip volume and often lean on artifacts to generate those flips, making Reckless Handling a cheap way to tutor the specific piece — Krark's Thumb or otherwise — that makes each flip matter more.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider rewards excavating and recurring artifacts, so the discard from Reckless Handling seeds the graveyard while the tutor guarantees the right artifact reaches hand on schedule.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Reckless Handling earns its slot — artifact tutors at two mana are scarce in red, and the forced discard is a meaningful upside in graveyard-synergy builds rather than a drawback. In Modern and Legacy, it competes against a deeper pool of artifact tutors and rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated discard or artifact-combo shells. Pioneer is a narrower card pool and Reckless Handling sees fringe play there, but it lacks the redundancy to be a staple. Oathbreaker gives it a home similar to Commander whenever the planeswalker is artifact-focused.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Reckless Handling is a bulk rare with no meaningful financial floor — it's easy to pick up and easy to replace. Buy it for the effect, not the price tag; it won't appreciate, but it also costs almost nothing to slot in.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.