Restoration Gearsmith
Creature — Human Artificer
When this creature enters, return target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24265
Restoration Gearsmith returns an artifact or creature from your graveyard to your hand for four mana on a 3/3 body — useful recursion stapled to a relevant blocker. The rate is fair but unexciting; you run it when you need redundancy in the recursion slot, not as a first pick.
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 the only real home for Restoration Gearsmith. In 100-card singleton, having a fifth or sixth recursion effect matters, and the 3/3 body at least trades with something while replacing itself in value. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, four mana for a single-target recursion effect with no enters-the-battlefield upside beyond the body is simply too slow and too small — dedicated recursion spells do the job cheaper and without occupying a creature slot. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton logic, so it's marginally more justifiable there, but the same quality ceiling applies.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Restoration Gearsmith at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given its narrow role and the competition in the recursion slot, it's almost certainly a bulk common or uncommon, which makes it an easy pickup if your deck genuinely needs the redundancy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.