Voyage Home
Sorcery
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs 
less to cast for each artifact you control.)
You draw three cards and gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #4096
Voyage Home bounces a creature you control back to hand and scrys 2 — that's immediate card selection plus protection stapled to a single blue instant. Mendicant Core, Guidelight decks run it at a nearly 68% clip because the scry directly fuels their draw-from-top engine, and the protection clause is almost free value on top.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mendicant Core, Guidelight
Mendicant Core, Guidelight cares deeply about what sits on top of your library, and Voyage Home's scry 2 lets you stack exactly that while shielding a key creature from removal — it's protection and deck manipulation in one package, which is why it shows up in over two-thirds of Mendicant decks.
Miles "Tails" Prower
Miles "Tails" Prower wants artifacts entering the battlefield repeatedly, and Voyage Home turns a threatened artifact creature into a free replay trigger while the scry keeps the engine consistent.
Urza, Prince of Kroog
Urza, Prince of Kroog builds around artifact creatures, and Voyage Home protects the high-value constructs and copies he generates while setting up the next draw — a clean two-for-one in a deck that can't afford to lose its key pieces.
Urza, Chief Artificer
Urza, Chief Artificer goes wide with artifact tokens, and Voyage Home pulls a threatened creature out of harm's way and scries into the next threat, keeping the board presence and hand quality both healthy.
Cayth, Famed Mechanist
Cayth, Famed Mechanist cares about artifacts with counters, so rebouncing a creature with Voyage Home both protects an investment and sets up the next draw step with scry 2.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Voyage Home earns its slot in artifact-creature decks specifically because it does two things at once — protection and scry — without requiring you to spend card advantage to do it. In competitive 1v1 formats like Legacy and Modern it's too narrow; bounce-plus-scry at instant speed is fine, but it doesn't interact with the opponent and costs a full mana and card on defense. Pioneer and Standard players will find occasional homes in tempo or blink shells, but it's firmly a role-player rather than a staple. Oathbreaker follows the same read as Commander — valuable in the right artifact shell, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Voyage Home is pure bulk — easy to pick up in a trade binder or as a cheap single. Demand is niche enough that the price is unlikely to climb unless Mendicant Core, Guidelight or another top-synergy commander spikes in popularity.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.