Ulamog's Reclaimer
Creature — Eldrazi Processor
Devoid (This card has no color.)
When this creature enters, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #23657
Ulamog's Reclaimer enters the battlefield and immediately recovers an instant or sorcery from your graveyard — a 2/5 body that replaces itself with a spell is real value, but five mana is a steep ask in a world where cheaper flashback effects exist. Run it when you need redundancy on graveyard recursion and a blocker in the same slot; cut it when your curve can't afford a five-drop that doesn't close games.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Ulamog's Reclaimer — 100-card singleton decks want redundant recursion, and a 2/5 that survives most red removal while returning a key instant or sorcery earns its slot in spell-heavy builds. Outside Commander, five mana for a vanilla-statted creature with one enter-the-battlefield trigger is too slow for Legacy or Vintage, where the graveyard is already exploited by faster, cheaper engines. Modern and Pioneer have enough efficient recursion that Ulamog's Reclaimer won't see serious play in those formats either. Treat it as a Commander-only role player.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Ulamog's Reclaimer is deep bulk — you're paying nearly nothing for a functional piece of graveyard recursion. Bulk rares and commons in this range rarely move unless a deck breaks them, and nothing about this card suggests that's coming, so buy it freely and don't expect the price to matter either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.