Reclaim the Wastes
Sorcery
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, search your library for two basic land cards instead of one.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #12283
Reclaim the Wastes is a one-mana sorcery that searches up a basic land and puts it into your hand — functional ramp that replaces itself on the curve but never accelerates you ahead of it. It's a fine budget inclusion in landfall or kicker-matters decks and a cut waiting to happen everywhere else.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Reclaim the Wastes competes with Farseek, Three Visits, and Nature's Lore — all two-mana spells that put the land onto the battlefield rather than into your hand, which is a meaningful tempo gap. It finds a narrower home in kicker-matters builds, where the kicker clause adds marginal upside at four mana. In Pauper it's more interesting, where the card pool thins and one-mana cantrip-ramp is closer to respectable. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage have no reason to run it — the format staples dwarf it entirely. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: playable with a kicker synergy, cuttable otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Reclaim the Wastes is deep bulk — the kind of card you grab from a common box without thinking twice. There's no price pressure here and no reason to expect any; it does a replaceable job in a slot that already has better cheap options.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.