Road of Return
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.
Entwine 
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2019
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #10172
Road of Return does two things a green Commander deck always wants — it puts your commander back in your hand for two mana, and if you pay four instead, it also draws you a card. Two modes on one card at instant speed is genuine flexibility, and the ceiling of "get commander + cantrip" for four mana is strong enough to justify the slot over single-purpose recursion.
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 |
Road of Return is a Commander card through and through — the entire design assumes a command zone exists, which makes it irrelevant in Legacy and Vintage despite being technically legal in both. In Commander, it fills a real role: two-mana instant-speed commander recursion is rare, and the four-mana mode that staples on a cantrip makes it a clean two-for-one when you have the mana to spare. Oathbreaker is the only other format where it earns a serious look, since the planeswalker-as-commander structure makes the recursion directly relevant and the card pool is slower enough that four mana for draw-plus-recovery is well within range.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Road of Return is bulk in price only — the effect is not bulk in power. It's a stable pickup that sees consistent Commander play and has no realistic path to zero, so there's no reason to wait on grabbing copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.