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Road of Return

SorceryGreen manaGreen mana

Green has always been trusted with the graveyard-to-hand recursion that Regrowth first defined, and the first mode here is exactly that lineage: pay two mana, pull a permanent back, no strings. What the entwine cost buys is stranger and more format-specific. The second mode moves your commander from the command zone into your hand, and that effect falls outside any color's traditional business: it sidesteps the command tax spiral, the escalating two-mana surcharge that piles onto a general each time it is recast from the zone. Cast a commander from your hand and you skip that surcharge entirely for that deployment; the tax counter does not shrink for future recasts, but for the turn you cast from hand it simply does not apply. As a sorcery this is planning, not rescue; you sequence it on your own turn, ahead of trouble, not in response to a removal spell on the stack. That distinction is the whole point. Where a bare command-zone-retrieval effect would rot in a deck as narrow insurance, entwine folds it into a recursion spell you would already want to run, so the card earns its slot doing everyday work and keeps the commander mode as upside for the turns you can spare four mana. The result reads as green designed against the structure of a singleton-general format rather than green designed against the battlefield: the second mode is meaningless in any game without a command zone, which is precisely what makes it a targeted answer instead of a generic Regrowth variant.

Road of Return (c19)
C19 · #34rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. • Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Entwine 2 generic mana (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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