Is Roadside Reliquary good in Commander?

Roadside Reliquary in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Roadside Reliquary taps to draw two cards and gain two life — but only if you control an artifact and an enchantment, and only by sacrificing itself. That cost is trivial in the decks that want it, and a two-for-one off a land slot is the kind of upside that makes Dogmeat, Ever Loyal lists run it at over 55% inclusion.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal

55.5% of decks · synergy 0.54

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal generates Junk tokens — artifacts — as a core function, and the Fallout theme leans heavily on aura-style attachments that fulfill the enchantment requirement, so Roadside Reliquary fires reliably and replaces itself without spending a card slot on the draw engine.

02

Kosei, Penitent Warlord

27.7% of decks · synergy 0.27

Kosei, Penitent Warlord demands stacking auras and equipment on a single creature, which means the enchantment half of Roadside Reliquary's condition is almost always live, and cashing the land in for two cards mid-combat setup costs nothing meaningful.

03

Preston Garvey, Minuteman

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.18

Preston Garvey, Minuteman's token plan produces artifact Settlers that satisfy one half of the requirement, and the deck's wide enchantment density handles the other, making Roadside Reliquary a clean late-game topdeck that converts a spent land into card advantage.

04

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice

18.4% of decks · synergy 0.16

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice is an aura-chain deck by definition, so the enchantment condition on Roadside Reliquary is met from turn one, and in a strategy that can run low on resources mid-combo, a land that cantrips for two is a meaningful safety valve.

05

Raiyuu, Storm's Edge

14.2% of decks · synergy 0.13

Raiyuu, Storm's Edge pilots a Samurai and Warrior aggro shell that leans on equipment — artifacts — to pump its attackers, and Roadside Reliquary slots in as a mana sink that converts into refueling once the board is set up and the land is no longer needed for mana.

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

Roadside Reliquary is a Commander card — full stop. The artifact-plus-enchantment condition is a non-starter in most competitive non-rotating formats where decks rarely sustain both permanent types simultaneously, and in Legacy or Vintage the bar for a land that sacrifices itself for two cards is simply too high against the speed of those formats. Modern and Pioneer could theoretically support it in enchantress or artifact-enchantment hybrid shells, but those decks have better draw options and no reason to spend a land slot on conditional card draw. Commander is where Roadside Reliquary earns its keep: multiplayer games go long, artifact and enchantment permanents are ubiquitous across the format's most popular themes, and converting a land into two cards in the mid-to-late game is exactly the kind of incremental advantage that compounds over four players.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Roadside Reliquary sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without a second thought if any of your decks consistently run both artifacts and enchantments. Bulk rares that see 55%+ inclusion in popular commander archetypes rarely spike dramatically, but this one does its job at any price.