Reviving Melody
Sorcery
Choose one or both —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Journey into Nyx
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #18382
Reviving Melody returns a creature and an enchantment from your graveyard to hand for three mana — modal recursion at instant speed is the headline, and three mana is a fair price for it. If your deck runs enchantment-creatures or Auras, this pulls double duty that most recursion spells can't match.
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 |
Reviving Melody is a Commander card first and almost exclusively. The format's longer games and graveyard-heavy strategies make modal recursion genuinely valuable, especially in Enchantress builds, Aura-voltron decks, and any shell running enchantment-creatures like Theros gods. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, three mana at sorcery speed to return cards to hand rather than the battlefield is simply too slow and too low-impact to see play. Pioneer and Vintage have the same problem — dedicated recursion in those formats either cheats mana or puts cards directly onto the battlefield. Stick to Commander, where the flexibility earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Reviving Melody is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk uncommons with narrow applications rarely climb in price, so there's no reason to buy more than the single copy you need.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.