Imperial Recovery Unit
Jumpstart 2022 197 • uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Collector number
- 197
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Steve Prescott
- Market price
- $0.11
What it does
Whenever this Vehicle attacks, return target creature or Vehicle card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.
Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Imperial Recovery Unit was released in 2022 as part of the Jumpstart 2022 expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The card was designed as part of the 'Artifact' themed deck, intended to evoke the industrial and utilitarian aesthetic of science fiction repair machinery. Mechanically, it serves as a utility card meant to support artifact-heavy strategies by allowing players to return permanents from the graveyard to their hand.
The artwork was illustrated by Volkan Baga, who utilized a clean, clinical color palette to emphasize the recovery-focused theme of the card. The design focuses on the visual language of futuristic maintenance equipment, aligning with the set's goal of exploring diverse genre tropes through top-down card design. Upon release, it was noted primarily for its specific utility within niche artifact-synergy decks rather than broader competitive play.
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