Restoration Seminar
Sorcery — Lesson
Return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10376
Restoration Seminar puts a permanent back from your graveyard onto the battlefield — the effect is real and the price is zero mana if Lorehold, the Historian is doing what it's supposed to do. In any deck that generates free spell triggers or cares about instants and sorceries in the graveyard, this is a clean value piece with no setup tax.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lorehold, the Historian
Lorehold, the Historian triggers off every instant and sorcery you cast, and Restoration Seminar feeds that loop by recurring permanents that generate more spells — the two cards form a self-reinforcing engine that gets out of hand fast.
Kellan, the Kid
Kellan, the Kid rewards you for casting spells on other players' turns, and Restoration Seminar's instant speed means you can rebuy a key permanent at end of an opponent's turn and immediately trigger Kellan's payoffs on your next draw.
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled puts coin counters on creatures to return them from any graveyard, and Restoration Seminar covers the non-creature permanents that Athreos can't touch — together they lock down a nearly airtight recursion package.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Restoration Seminar earns its slot — the singleton format's graveyard density and the prevalence of instant-and-sorcery-matters commanders mean this card regularly recurs something impactful rather than a disposable token. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage it has no practical home; the effect is too slow and too narrow compared to what those formats do with their graveyard slots. Modern and Pioneer are similarly cold: Restoration Seminar asks too much of a dedicated graveyard build without delivering enough raw power for those formats' pace. Standard is technically legal but is unlikely to see play outside of a very specific limited-time synergy window.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Restoration Seminar isn't currently available through our sources, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market values before picking up copies. Given its 46% inclusion rate in Lorehold, the Historian decks and its unique instant-speed recursion angle, demand likely outpaces casual bulk pricing — verify before assuming it's a cheap pickup.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.