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Echoing Return

SorceryBlack mana

Most graveyard recursion returns one card and stops there. The clause that matters is "and all other cards with the same name," which converts a single-target regrowth into a set-collector aimed squarely at decks that run four copies of one creature. Return a spent one-drop and you may draw back the whole playset in a single black mana, so the card scales directly with how redundant your creature base is: it does nothing extra for a toolbox of singletons and everything for a deck built on stacked identical bodies. That makes it a natural fit for aggressive tribal shells and combo decks that lean on multiples of a specific creature, where refilling four copies of one name in one line is a genuine engine rather than a value trickle. The design lives on a narrow axis: worthless when your graveyard holds one of everything, busted when it holds four of the right thing, and the reward is set entirely by the deckbuilder before the spell is ever cast. The sorcery-speed cost keeps it honest, since you cannot ambush a board wipe by scooping your creatures back at instant speed; the refill happens on your own turn, on your own terms. What looks like a modest one-mana regrowth is really a rebuild button, and its ceiling is a function of a single structural decision: how many copies of one name you were willing to jam into the deck in the first place.

Echoing Return (j21)
J21 · #320common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target creature card and all other cards with the same name as that card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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