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Saving Grasp

InstantBlue mana

The cleverness here is the second color. Bouncing your own creature to hand is bread-and-butter blue: protect a key body from removal, reset an enters-the-battlefield trigger, dodge a board wipe. What sets this apart is that the flashback cost is paid in white, not blue, turning a mono-blue protective trick into a two-color graveyard resource that only ever leaves your hand the first time. Cast it once at instant speed to save a creature, then later, after it has died and been replaced or after you have built a fresh board, pay white to do it again before it exiles itself. The split cost makes the card a quiet argument for Azorius: the up-front blue keeps it castable in any blue deck, while the white flashback rewards the deck that runs both colors with a second use of a one-mana effect that is otherwise spent the moment it resolves. The "you own" clause is the restriction that keeps it honest, ruling out the cheeky tempo play of bouncing an opponent's creature; this is purely a tool for protecting and replaying your own things, not a removal-adjacent disruption spell. A small, disciplined design that does one thing twice.

Saving Grasp (dka)
DKA · #46common
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target creature you own to your hand. Flashback White mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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