Tameshi, Reality Architect

Legendary Creature — Moonfolk Wizard

Whenever one or more noncreature permanents are returned to hand, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{X}{W}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Return target artifact or enchantment card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos
Price
$0.46
EDHREC rank
#9600
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Tameshi, Reality Architect card art
Tameshi, Reality Architect turns any land bounce into a free permanent recursion engine — return a land to your hand, pay one mana, get an artifact or enchantment back from your graveyard, repeat every turn. The cost is real: you're spending mana and lands-in-hand to fuel the loop, so shells that already want to bounce lands, like Patron of the Moon, get the trigger nearly for free, while slower builds risk grinding themselves out; Sharuum the Hegemon decks run Tameshi specifically because the artifact recursion stacks with Sharuum's own enters-the-battlefield clause to generate absurd value.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Sharuum the Hegemon

Sharuum the Hegemon

18.3% of decks · synergy 0.18

Sharuum the Hegemon already wants a graveyard stocked with artifacts, and Tameshi, Reality Architect provides a repeatable, on-demand way to reload from the bin before Sharuum even hits the table — the two cards form a recursive loop that's difficult to race once it gets rolling.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Tameshi, Reality Architect slots cleanly into any Azorius or Esper deck that runs land-bounce effects or fetchlands, converting incidental land returns into a steady stream of recursive permanents — it's especially powerful as the commander itself, since blue-white has deep access to enchantments, artifacts, and the bounce spells that fuel the engine. In Modern and Pioneer, Tameshi sees fringe play in dedicated combo shells built around bouncing cheap artifacts and enchantments for value, but the setup cost and lack of immediate impact make it a build-around rather than a staple. Legacy and Vintage have more efficient recursion available at lower mana costs, so Tameshi rarely competes there outside of niche brewers.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.46 bulk tier

At $0.46, Tameshi, Reality Architect sits firmly in bulk territory, which is a genuine bargain given how much work it does in the right shell. Bulk rares with active Commander homes tend to hold a floor around this price indefinitely, so there's no urgency to buy in multiples — just grab a copy when you need it.

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