The Mending of Dominaria
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
III — Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, then shuffle your graveyard into your library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #3004
The Mending of Dominaria puts three lands into play over five turns while filling your graveyard, then returns every land from your graveyard to the battlefield — a late-game mana explosion that also resets sacrifice fodder for engines like Zuran Orb. Five mana is the real cost, and the payoff is backloaded, so it earns its slot in decks that can use the graveyard filling as a resource, not just a side effect — Yuma, Proud Protector being the clearest example.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yuma, Proud Protector
The Mending of Dominaria is a staple in Yuma, Proud Protector decks because each land entering from the graveyard triggers Yuma's token generation, turning the final chapter into a massive board flood. Over half of all Yuma lists include it for exactly this reason.
Narci, Fable Singer
Narci, Fable Singer cares about sagas completing their final chapter, and The Mending of Dominaria's lore counters generate drain triggers while also contributing to Narci's damage-on-saga-completion payoff. It's both an engine piece and a win accelerant in that shell.
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor rewards landing multiple lands per turn, and The Mending of Dominaria's mass land recursion on chapter three delivers a burst of land-enters triggers that pump Obuun and the animated land-creatures simultaneously.
Kirri, Talented Sprout
Kirri, Talented Sprout triggers off sagas advancing, so The Mending of Dominaria contributes card advantage and plant tokens on each chapter while also supplying the land-ramp that Kirri's go-wide strategy needs to keep pace.
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos can reanimate The Mending of Dominaria as an enchantment creature, effectively letting the saga replay its land-recursion chapter from the graveyard and providing a repeatable late-game mana engine in an enchantment-matters shell.
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 |
In Commander, The Mending of Dominaria is a role-player rather than a staple — it belongs in specific land-synergy builds and earns its slot there decisively. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, it's too slow and too conditional; five mana for a saga that pays off over multiple turns can't compete with the speed of those formats, and it sees essentially no play there. Pioneer is in the same boat — the card is legal but irrelevant in the current metagame. Oathbreaker follows Commander's logic: if your planeswalker and signature spell care about lands or sagas, it has a home; otherwise it doesn't make the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
The Mending of DominariaZuran OrbEvolution SageHex Parasite
Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinitely powerful creature until end of turn; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite proliferate
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Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, The Mending of Dominaria is bulk, and that price reflects its narrow application outside of Commander. It's unlikely to spike without a new commander that makes sagas or land recursion dramatically more powerful, so grab copies now if you're building the relevant decks rather than treating it as a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.