Primary Research
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When this enchantment enters, return target nonland permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of your end step, if a card left your graveyard this turn, draw a card.
What it does
Tagged as Card draw · Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official rulings
- Primary Research'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. (2026-03-20)
- If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value. (2026-03-20)
Printings & prices
Every set Primary Research has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
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