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Blessed Reincarnation

Instant3 generic manaBlue mana

The math on a removal spell that hands your opponent a free creature is supposed to be terrible, and the elegance is that it usually isn't. The exile clause is what redeems it: the threat leaves permanently, with no death trigger, no graveyard recursion, no aristocrats payoff to mine on the way out. What the opponent gets back is the top creature off their library, dropped uncast and mid-sequence, and that swap favors you precisely when their creatures are interchangeable: a deck stuffed with cheap, low-impact bodies hands back something no better than what you removed, while you have spent four mana erasing their best play and dictating which junk comes down in its place. The exchange tilts against you only when every creature in their deck is a threat worth fearing, which is the rare case rather than the common one. Rebound is what converts the gamble into a plan rather than a one-off: exile it as it resolves, and on your next upkeep it fires again for free, two unconditional exiles separated by a turn with the second already paid. The recurring gift (every cast pulls a creature out of their deck and onto the battlefield) is the standing cost, and reading the board to know when the random body you grant is worse than the one you remove is the entire skill of the card. It is a control answer dressed as a liability, built to look like a misprint and play like tempo.

Blessed Reincarnation (pdtk)
PDTK · #47srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile target creature an opponent controls. That player reveals cards from the top of their library until a creature card is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
Printings elsewhere

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