82 Commander-legal cards that return cards from the graveyard to hand are on this list: green regrowth cards, and creatures that return spells or artifacts. The most-played are Eternal Witness, Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary and Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (card data dated November 1, 2026).
Regrowth returns a card from your graveyard to your hand. 82 Commander-legal cards here: green regrowth, and creatures returning spells or artifacts.
These cards return a card from your graveyard to your hand, a second use of a removal spell, a land, a creature or a combo piece. Eternal Witness and Regrowth return any card, Archaeomancer and Mnemonic Wall an instant or a sorcery, and Myr Retriever and Junk Diver an artifact when they die.
Green has the widest choice: Regrowth and Recollect for any card, Nature's Spiral and Elvish Regrower for a permanent card, Wildest Dreams and Restock for several. Spell decks reuse their best instant or sorcery with Archaeomancer, again whenever a blink effect returns it, and artifact decks rebuy their pieces with Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever and Trusty Packbeast.
Rules note: most regrowth spells and abilities target a card in your graveyard, so a card exiled from the graveyard in response is not returned, and the effect does nothing if that card was its only target.
On this list, the most-played creatures that return instants and sorceries from the graveyard: Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak; Archaeomancer; Toph, Hardheaded Teacher; Mnemonic Wall; and Ardent Elementalist.
On this list, the most-played creatures that return artifacts to your hand: Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever, Junk Diver, Workshop Assistant and Elder Owyn Lyons.
82 cards in all. The 40 most-played are listed here, each linked to its page with printings, prices and format legality.
Commander-legal cards whose rules text returns cards from a graveyard to a hand, in three groups: green cards that return one or more cards, creatures that return instant and sorcery cards, and creatures that return artifact cards, as each card was judged against the questions "green cards that return any card from the graveyard to hand", "creatures that return instants and sorceries from the graveyard" and "creatures that return artifacts from my graveyard to my hand". Cards that put cards back onto the battlefield are not listed. One entry per card, most-played first.
Built from the card data dated 2026-11-01.
Results on . The six cards on this list that Scry ranked highest that day for "green cards that return any card from the graveyard to hand".
Returning a card from your graveyard to your hand, named after the green sorcery Regrowth: "Return target card from your graveyard to your hand." Your graveyard holds the cards you discarded or that were countered, destroyed or sacrificed, and the instants and sorceries that resolved (rule 404.1); a regrowth effect puts one back where you can cast or play it again.
Yes, when it says "target card" or "target permanent card". A permanent card is an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land or planeswalker card (rule 110.4a), so Nature's Spiral or Elvish Regrower can return a land, but not an instant or a sorcery.
It isn't returned. A spell or ability checks its targets as it resolves, a card that is no longer in the zone it was in when it was targeted is an illegal target, and one whose every target is illegal doesn't resolve (rule 608.2b).
The creatures here that return an instant or sorcery when they enter, such as Archaeomancer and Mnemonic Wall, do it each time they enter the battlefield (rule 603.6a), so a blink or a bounce on them returns another spell; Myr Retriever and Junk Diver return an artifact each time they die (rule 603.6c).