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Death's Duet

Sorcery2 generic manaBlack mana

Mass graveyard recursion at a fixed rate, built for decks that treat the yard as a second hand. The doubling is the whole pitch: a single Raise Dead trades one card for one creature, and most recursion at this cost settles for that same one-for-one. This buys back two bodies for three mana, which only pays off when you have spent the early turns deliberately stocking the graveyard. Being a sorcery is what disciplines the rate: you cannot hold it up as a response to a board wipe or fire it on the crack-back, so it asks for a proactive plan rather than a reactive one. The targeting gives you genuine selection, but no scaling, which dates the design; it returns exactly two and never grows past that, leaving the heavy lifting to whatever creatures you have put in the bin. That places it in the long lineage of black's "the graveyard is a resource" tradition, the same impulse behind Gravedigger and the later reanimator toolbox, but without the body or the flexibility those got. What it offers is raw card advantage at a clean price, for a deck that has already done the work of dying its best creatures into the yard.

Death's Duet (exo)
EXO · #60common
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Normal: $0.16
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Return two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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