Wreck and Rebuild

Sorcery

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Mill five cards, then you may put a land card from your graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.
Flashback {3}{R}{G}

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Doctor Who
Price
EDHREC rank
#8277
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Wreck and Rebuild card art
Wreck and Rebuild destroys an artifact or enchantment and lets you draw a card — removal that replaces itself is the baseline for playability in Commander, and this clears it. Yuma, Proud Protector decks get a second trigger from the Desert land entering, making this a three-for-one in the right shell.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yuma, Proud Protector

Yuma, Proud Protector

55.8% of decks · synergy 0.54

Wreck and Rebuild puts a Desert land directly onto the battlefield, which triggers Yuma, Proud Protector's token-generation ability — so the spell is simultaneously removal, a land drop, and a creature maker, all for two mana.

02
Kirri, Talented Sprout

Kirri, Talented Sprout

33.7% of decks · synergy 0.32

Kirri, Talented Sprout cares about playing lands from unconventional sources, and Wreck and Rebuild's land-from-library mode lets Kirri decks treat their removal spell as ramp — unusual enough to be worth the slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Wreck and Rebuild is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander where the card-draw clause and land-fetch mode both scale up in a longer game. In Legacy and Vintage the effect is too slow and too conditional — those formats have cheaper, unconditional answers and don't need removal to draw a card to justify its inclusion. Commander is where the full text matters: artifact and enchantment removal is always useful, and stapling a draw or a land to it means the card is never truly dead.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Wreck and Rebuild isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current figure. Given that it sees concentrated play almost exclusively in Yuma, Proud Protector builds, expect it to sit in the bulk-to-low-value range outside of that demand.

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