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Back from the Brink

Enchantment4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

A graveyard recursion engine that asks you to pay twice. Most reanimation effects in blue's history have leaned on cost reduction or outright cheating, but this one demands the full freight: exile the creature, then pay its printed mana cost again to get a token copy. The double-tax is what keeps a repeatable copy machine from running away with the game, and it shapes how you build around it. You are not reanimating your six-drops on the cheap; you are turning a graveyard full of cheap creatures with enters-the-battlefield triggers into an inexhaustible value loop, where each activation might cost only one or two mana and refunds itself in board presence or triggered effects. Because it makes a token rather than returning the original card, the exiled creature is gone after one use, so the engine rewards a deck stocked with bodies that earn their value the instant they arrive rather than ones you want to keep looping. The sorcery-speed clamp closes the door on instant-speed shenanigans, making this a main-phase grind tool rather than a combat trick or a stack interaction. It sits in the lineage of blue enchantments that convert mana and graveyard fuel into a recurring stream of creatures, trading the explosiveness of one-shot reanimation for an attrition plan that simply does not stop as long as the graveyard holds something worth copying and the mana keeps flowing.

Back from the Brink (isd)
ISD · #44rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.52
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Create a token that's a copy of that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

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