---
name: "Midnight Recovery"
mana_cost: "{3}{B}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Cipher"]
set: "GTC"
set_name: "Gatecrash"
collector_number: "73"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Peter Mohrbacher"
oracle_id: "7904025c-7120-4362-abe9-a9f5fb64447f"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/midnight-recovery-gtc"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Midnight Recovery
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}{B}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Cipher

## Oracle Text
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Writ of Return](/printing/writ-of-return-prm.md) — Sorcery
2. [Recover](/printing/recover-inv.md) — Sorcery
3. [Endbringer's Revel](/printing/endbringers-revel-pcy.md) — Enchantment
4. [Disentomb](/printing/disentomb-m11.md) — Sorcery
5. [Return to Battle](/printing/return-to-battle-ptk.md) — Sorcery
6. [Rise Again](/printing/rise-again-m21.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Gatecrash (GTC) #73
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Peter Mohrbacher
- **Total Printings:** 11 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `legal`