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Disentomb

SorceryBlack mana

Black's most stripped-down piece of graveyard recursion: one mana, one creature card, back to hand, and nothing else attached. The card exists to be the floor of an effect, the version printed when a set needs the reanimation-adjacent option but wants it bounded and cheap. The restriction that prices it is the return-to-hand clause; you pay a full second cast to get the creature onto the battlefield, which keeps it honest against the splashier reanimator spells that cheat the mana cost entirely. That makes it a value spell rather than a combo enabler: it rebuys a creature you already played, it does not break the rules about how creatures arrive. Black has carried this exact effect across the game's whole history under a parade of names (Raise Dead being the original template), each printing a near-identical reprint at common, because the effect is too modest to warrant power-creep and too useful to retire. The line between these and the dangerous recursion is precisely the word "hand": once a card returns a creature directly to play, the rate changes entirely and the design moves into reanimator territory. This is the safe side of that line, and it has stayed there by design.

Disentomb (m10)
M10 · #92common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.69
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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