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Secret Salvage

Sorcery

Exile target nonland card from your graveyard. Search your library for any number of cards with the same name as that card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Aether Revolt
Price
$0.40
EDHREC rank
#9623
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Secret Salvage card art
Secret Salvage resolves and you put every copy of the named card from your library straight to hand — no shuffling, no searching one at a time, just the whole package delivered at once. Five mana is steep, but in a deck built around a single nonbasic creature type like Athreos, God of Passage or Syr Konrad, the Grim, the card-advantage ceiling is absurd enough to justify it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

02
Rat King, Verminister

Rat King, Verminister

22.4% of decks · synergy 0.21

Rat King, Verminister rewards running the maximum count of a single Rat, so Secret Salvage does exactly what the deck wants: name your chosen Rat, dump the remaining copies into hand, and start flooding the board the same turn or next.

03
Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer

12.5% of decks · synergy 0.11

Marrow-Gnawer wants as many Rats in play as possible to generate exponential token production, and Secret Salvage functions as a one-card reload that refills your hand with the fuel Marrow-Gnawer needs to go wide before opponents stabilize.

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

Secret Salvage is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card. In sixty-card formats the five-mana cost and the requirement to build around a playset of one card make it uncompetitive — you'd never run it in Modern or Legacy when cheaper, more consistent options exist. Commander is where the math flips: singleton rules mean opponents can't run the same card, but you can name your own redundant pieces and pull four or more copies to hand at once. Oathbreaker is a plausible home if your signature spell strategy leans on a repeated nonbasic permanent, but the raw ceiling is lower with fewer cards in the deck.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.40 bulk tier

At $0.40, Secret Salvage is pure bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. The price reflects its narrow application rather than power level; it doesn't have enough cross-format demand to climb, so expect it to stay in this range.

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