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Drafna's Restoration

SorceryBlue mana

A one-mana blue sorcery that reloads a library with artifacts, printed into the set that defined what an artifact deck even was. The design is doing something stranger than it first reads: it is not recursion in the modern sense, because the cards go to the top of the library rather than the hand or battlefield. That makes it a setup spell, a way to stack the next several draws, and it pairs naturally with anything that cares about library manipulation or with effects that let the controller cash those known top-decks immediately. The "target player" clause does the real work of widening the design: it can be aimed at an opponent, either to bury their best draws under a chosen artifact or to refill a library that mill has thinned, depending on which side of the table the artifacts sit. Drafna himself is one of the named artificers of the Brothers' War backstory, and the card belongs to a small cluster of one-mana effects in the set that treat the graveyard as a working zone rather than a discard pile. The rate is generous by the standards of its era (any number of targets, one blue mana, sorcery speed as the only restriction) and reflects a design sensibility that priced library-stacking as a curiosity rather than a threat.

Drafna's Restoration (atq)
ATQ · #8common
Pricing
Normal: $1.93
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Put any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard on top of their library in any order.
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
Legal
Premodern
N/A
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
Legal
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