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Essence Reliquary

Artifact2 generic manaWhite mana

Blink effects usually exile and return a permanent at instant speed, resetting it as a fresh object. This does something quieter and stranger: it bounces the permanent to hand, and it carries every Aura you control attached along with it, back to the owner's hand rather than to the graveyard. That second clause justifies the whole card. Auras have always suffered from the two-for-one problem: kill or bounce the enchanted creature and the Auras fall off and die. Here the friction runs the other way. You choose to return your own permanent, and the Auras that would ordinarily be lost come home for a rebuy. On a board of Rancor-style value enchantments or a heavily suited-up creature, that turns what looks like a tempo hit into a way to bank an entire investment out of removal's reach. Restricting the activation to your own turn keeps it from doubling as an instant-speed protection engine on the opponent's turn, which is the balancing line: it is a proactive tool for cashing out and recasting, not a reactive shield. Because the return targets another permanent you control, not just creatures, it also functions as a repeatable enters-the-battlefield loop, picking up a value creature and setting it up to be recast for its trigger again. Aura recursion and self-bounce rarely share a card; here they meet, and the card treats losing your own permanent as the cost rather than the drawback.

Essence Reliquary (mh3)
MH3 · #24uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Return another target permanent you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand. Activate only during your turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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