Relic Retriever card art

Relic Retriever

Creature — Spirit Monkey MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

First strike

At the beginning of each end step, if a card left your graveyard this turn, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2026-03-20

    Relic Retriever's last ability will check as your end step starts to see if any cards have left your graveyard this turn. If none did, the ability won't trigger at all. It's not possible to remove cards from your graveyard during your end step in time to have the ability trigger.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Relic Retriever, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 14
Win rate 28.6%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Fire Lord Zuko 2 14 28.6%
Smaug the Magnificent 2 0

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Red 2 decks
  • Mardu 2 decks

Every version of Relic Retriever

2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Relic Retriever — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.