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Argivian Restoration

Sorcery2 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Reanimation is normally a black mechanic, sold at the cost of giving the graveyard back something the opponent already killed. This does the same structural work for blue, but narrowed to a single card type: anything that died as an artifact, from a humble mana rock to an artifact creature to a game-ending construct, is fair game, while the fattest blue spells and planeswalkers in the bin stay there. Blue has always had a claim to artifact recursion, so the spell reads less as a color-pie transgression than as a focused expression of it: graveyard recovery licensed only when the payload is an artifact. At four mana to put the card directly onto the battlefield rather than into hand, it sidesteps the recast cost entirely; an expensive artifact that died once comes back for a flat rate, and what was a dead zone becomes a resource. The sorcery speed denies the instant-speed blink-and-flash tricks that would make the loop oppressive, holding the effect to a once-per-turn tempo play. It belongs to a strain of design that treats discarded and destroyed artifacts as a recoverable reserve, a lineage blue has returned to whenever a set wants to reward building around costly equipment, mana rocks, or constructs without simply handing the color full reanimation.

Argivian Restoration (wth)
WTH · #34uncommon
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Normal: $0.23
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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