Retraced Image
Sorcery
Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $8.87
- EDHREC rank
- #10918
Retraced Image puts a land from your hand directly onto the battlefield — no tapping, no mana cost — as long as it shares a name with a land you already control. One blue mana for unconditional land acceleration is a real rate, but the name-matching requirement means it only fires in decks built around basic-heavy or snow-land strategies.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Retraced Image is a niche piece: it rewards decks that run a high basic count or a suite of identically named nonbasics — think Thawing Glaciers mirrors or snow-land piles. Legacy sees it occasionally in combo shells that want land acceleration on turn one without spending green, but it's far from a staple. Vintage has the card pool to abuse it but rarely bothers. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — viable in the right shell, invisible outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Retraced Image's closest analog is Explore, which costs the same one mana and also advances your land count — it just requires a card draw first and doesn't care about name matching. If you want a harder land-to-battlefield effect, Harrow costs three but replaces itself and thins the deck, making it the safer pick for most Commander lists.
Price Context
Current price
$8.87 mid tier
At $8.87, Retraced Image sits in mid-tier pricing for a card with a narrow use case — that's real money for something that blanks outside its intended shell. The price is buoyed by scarcity and casual demand from snow and Asmor-adjacent brews rather than widespread competitive play, so it's a fine buy if you've identified the deck that wants it and a skip otherwise.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.