Resourceful Return
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If you control an artifact, draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aether Revolt
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #16277
Resourceful Return puts a creature back in your hand and replaces itself with a card draw — all on one sorcery at two mana. That rate is genuinely efficient, and in any deck that wants to reuse the graveyard or simply keep cards flowing, it earns its slot without debate.
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, Resourceful Return sits in a comfortable niche: cheap enough to cast off curve, useful enough to never feel like a wasted draw. It shines in aristocrats and reanimator shells where getting a specific creature back to hand matters more than milling it deeper. In Pauper, where card advantage at common is genuinely contested, the cantrip stapled to a Raise Dead effect makes Resourceful Return a real consideration for black creature-based strategies. Across other eternal formats — Legacy, Modern, Pioneer — the card is legal but outclassed; those formats move too fast for a sorcery-speed retrieval that doesn't impact the board immediately.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Resourceful Return is pure bulk — pick it up without hesitation if the effect fits. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't appreciate, but they don't need to; you're buying function, not future value.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.