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Fated Return

Instant4 generic manaBlack manaBlack manaBlack mana

Reanimation usually buys its discount by handing power back to the opponent: the creature comes back exiled the moment it dies, or only briefly yours, or wearing a fragility that makes the cheap recursion a bluff. This pays seven for the opposite contract. At triple-black and instant speed, it pulls a creature from any graveyard, including your opponent's, and the indestructible clause means the target shrugs off the wrath and the burn and the combat math that would otherwise punish a flimsy reanimation target. Indestructible is a narrow shield, not a blanket one (an edict that demands a sacrifice still takes the body, and a flicker or a bounce still strips it away), but against the damage-and-destruction removal that fills most graveyards in the first place, it holds. The scry 2 rider is restricted to your own turn, a small concession that this is a deliberate, mana-heavy play and not a cheap engine. Where Reanimate and Animate Dead trade efficiency for risk, this trades efficiency for permanence. You are not borrowing a body for a turn; you are installing one that the common removal suite cannot kill, at instant speed, which means it can ambush an attacker, recur a creature in response to its own death trigger, or simply park a finisher on the board with the safest escort available. Seven mana is the wall the indestructibility buys its way past, and the card never pretends the price is anything but steep.

Fated Return (bng)
BNG · #69rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $0.78
Oracle Text

Rules text

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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