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Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn

Sorcery // Land

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{4}{U}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Zendikar Rising
Price
$34.56
EDHREC rank
#676
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Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn card art
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn refills your hand to your maximum hand size — which, after something like Peer into the Abyss, can mean drawing ten-plus cards and then dropping an untapped blue land if you never need the spell. Ral, Monsoon Mage decks run it as a slam-dunk: it's a land that becomes a game-ending refuel, and the floor of "enters untapped" means it costs you nothing to include.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Ral, Monsoon Mage

42.4% of decks · synergy 0.34

Ral, Monsoon Mage triggers off instants and sorceries, so Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn does double duty — it fuels the damage-doubling engine when cast and sits in the deck as a free blue land otherwise, meaning you never feel the slot cost.

02
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

34.9% of decks · synergy 0.28

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow cares deeply about high mana values sitting on top of the library, and Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn's seven-mana front face makes it one of the best Yuriko hits you can engineer — landing it off a ninjutsu trigger can close a game by itself.

03
Quandrix, the Proof

Quandrix, the Proof

28.8% of decks · synergy 0.24

Quandrix, the Proof wants to accumulate cards and mana to execute large mathematical turns, and Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn answers the "what do I do when my hand is empty" problem that counters-matter decks regularly run into at parity.

04

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

25.3% of decks · synergy 0.20

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn often generates wide boards and grinds into the late game, where hand size becomes the bottleneck, and Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn serves as the late-game refuel that lets white-blue builds push through the final stretch.

05
Hidetsugu and Kairi

Hidetsugu and Kairi

25.4% of decks · synergy 0.19

Hidetsugu and Kairi triggers on death by putting the top card of the library into play, so stacking the deck with a high-CMC spell like Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn sets up a free cast the moment the commander dies — converting removal into card advantage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the natural home for Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn: 100-card decks naturally thin out, hand refills are transformative at the table's power ceiling, and a land that doubles as a seven-mana sorcery is exactly the kind of modal flexibility that warrants a deck slot. In Modern and Pioneer, the land side is the draw — blue decks pay nothing to include it, and the occasional late-game cast is a bonus rather than the plan. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, cheaper card draw that makes the sorcery face less compelling, but the land still sneaks into blue tempo shells that want to maximize their land count without dedicating full slots. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic, especially in storm or spell-slinger shells where the seven-mana face is a real win condition.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Diminishing Returns and Windfall can both refill your hand at a fraction of the cost, though both carry real drawbacks — Diminishing Returns exiles your graveyard, and Windfall is symmetrical and stops working once you're the only one with an empty hand. If the land half is the primary appeal, Halimar Depths or Mystic Sanctuary offer enter-tapped blue lands with meaningful upside, but neither replaces the sheer ceiling of Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn as a hand refuel that enters untapped.

Price Context

Current price

$34.56 premium tier

At $34.56, Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn sits firmly in premium MDFC territory — a price propped up by its cross-format land-slot utility and its ceiling as a game-ending draw spell. It's held value consistently because both halves are genuinely playable, which is rarer than it looks among modal double-faced cards.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.