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Against All Odds

Sorcery3 generic manaWhite mana

White has printed proactive flicker for years (reset something you already deployed, retrigger its enters ability, blink out of a targeted removal spell) and it has printed cheap graveyard recovery, but the two effects want opposite board states. Flicker wants you ahead, with a value engine already down. Recursion wants you behind, with something already dead. Stapling both onto one modal sorcery, and letting you take either mode or both for the same 3 generic manaWhite mana, means the card meets you wherever the game has landed. Ahead, you blink the engine and bank another enters trigger. Behind, you drag a fallen artifact or creature back and get its enters ability on arrival. Buried enough to want both, you get both at no extra cost. The recursion mode's cap at three mana value points it at cheap engine pieces and utility bodies rather than haymakers, so this stays a grind tool instead of sliding into generic reanimation. The sorcery restriction reinforces that: no instant-speed shenanigans, no dodging removal at the last second, just deliberate value on your own turn. Two half-cards that rarely want to share a slot, bolted together so that the modality itself is the payoff: four mana buying tempo when you are winning and recovery when you are not.

Against All Odds (one)
ONE · #1uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one or both — • Exile target artifact or creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. • Return target artifact or creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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