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Cauldron Dance

Instant4 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

The "cast this spell only during combat" clause is the whole engine, and it routes the card toward a single job: ambushing a combat step with two bodies that appear out of nothing. Both halves grant haste because both are built to act the turn they resolve and then unwind when the turn closes; the graveyard half bounces its creature back to your hand (so you keep the card and any enters-the-battlefield trigger you wrung from it), while the hand half rents a fresh creature for one combat before its controller sacrifices it. The result is two attackers or two blockers conjured purely from your own resources. That self-sufficiency is the underrated part: pulling one creature from the yard and one from the hand, it does not lean on an existing board to matter. As the aggressor, you fire it before declaring attackers, ahead of any blocking math, and swing with reinforcements your opponent never saw on the table; as the defender, you wait for the attack and drop two surprise blockers into a step that looked safe. The six-mana, double-pip cost and the awkward "two cards stapled together" feel are the toll for that flexibility: a blowout trick that wants a creature to reanimate and a creature to spend, not a steady value engine. Built for the swing that ends a game, not the one that grinds it out.

Cauldron Dance (inv)
INV · #238uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $7.72
Oracle Text

Rules text

Cast this spell only during combat. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step. You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Its controller sacrifices it at the beginning of the next end step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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