Cemetery Recruitment

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Cemetery Recruitment: Sorcery, Foundations Commander. Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{B}
Mana value
2
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Black (B)
Rarity
Common
Set
Foundations Commander (FDC)
Released
2026-10-02
Collector number
90
Artist
Kieran Yanner
Commander rank
11,205 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Cemetery Recruitment

Cemetery Recruitment is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common black sorcery from Foundations Commander (FDC), released in October 2026. It is collector number 90 in that set, with art by Kieran Yanner. It costs {1}{B} (one generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Eldritch Moon (2016) to Foundations (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.20 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If it's a Zombie card, draw a card.

"There's a smoothness to my magic here that I don't find on any other plane."

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.20 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Cemetery Recruitment by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
AlchemyLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Cemetery Recruitment

Cemetery Recruitment has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Foundations (FDN) #517Common2024
Jumpstart 2022 (J22) #385Common2022
Jumpstart (JMP) #217Common2020
Eldritch Moon (EMN) #83Common2016

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Cemetery Recruitment.

  • If the target creature card is an illegal target as Cemetery Recruitment tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't draw a card even if the target creature card was a Zombie card.

Similar cards

Other sorcery cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Cemetery Recruitment is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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