Trash for Treasure
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact.
Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Historic Anthology 5
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3703
Trash for Treasure returns any artifact from your graveyard to the battlefield — at instant speed, for three mana, with the only cost being a sacrifice of another artifact you already control. In Daretti, Scrap Savant and similar graveyard-looting shells, that cost is irrelevant noise; you're recycling junk to reanimate something that should never have been destroyable in the first place.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Daretti, Scrap Savant
Daretti, Scrap Savant's looting ability fills the graveyard with artifacts and his ultimate wants them back — Trash for Treasure is the sorcery-speed shortcut to skipping the wait, firing off a Spine of Ish Sah or Blightsteel Colossus the turn after it hits the bin.
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant's affinity-for-artifacts cost naturally fills the board with fodder, and when a payoff artifact gets countered or destroyed, Trash for Treasure converts any leftover junk into an immediate replay.
Imskir Iron-Eater
Imskir Iron-Eater wants artifacts sacrificed repeatedly for value, so the artifact you pitch to Trash for Treasure isn't a cost — it's a trigger — and the piece you reanimate often costs far more than three mana at retail.
Megatron, Tyrant
Megatron, Tyrant's game plan revolves around converting artifacts into energy and threats, and Trash for Treasure slots in as a resilience tool that recovers a key piece after an opponent's removal spell without skipping a beat.
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp decks run dense Modular synergies where artifacts die constantly and predictably — Trash for Treasure turns that churn into recursion, pulling back a Arcbound Ravager or Walking Ballista at a pivotal moment.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Trash for Treasure is a Commander card in practice — artifact-heavy singleton decks give it the density of sacrificial fodder and high-value reanimation targets that make the trade profitable. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees no meaningful competitive play; those formats have faster, less conditional recursion routes. Modern is the same story: the card is legal but rarely chosen over purpose-built reanimator pieces. Commander is where Trash for Treasure earns its slot, specifically in red artifact decks that treat the sacrifice as a synergy trigger rather than a resource loss.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't currently available for Trash for Treasure, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Historically it's been an affordable include — it has multiple printings and doesn't see competitive play outside Commander, which keeps demand modest.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Daretti, Scrap Savant
- Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant
- Imskir Iron-Eater
- Megatron, Tyrant
- Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.