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Say Its Name

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

Most cards are cast once and forgotten; this one is designed to be drawn, cast, and buried three separate times before it pays off. The front half is honest enough on its own: a two-mana dig that fills the graveyard while pulling back a creature or land, self-mill and recursion folded into one green function. The second ability is the reason it exists. Assemble three copies of the card in your yard, exile them together, and you conjure a specific enormous eldritch payoff onto the battlefield, fetched from graveyard, hand, or library alike. That "and/or" tutor is the clever part: whichever zone the finisher happens to occupy, this finds it and cheats it in, so the ritual functions whether you've drawn the payoff early or milled it away. The design leans hard on redundancy of the name rather than redundancy of effect, an incantation you have to repeat before the summoning completes. It asks a deck to treat its own graveyard as a component store and to run enough copies that three end up there naturally, which is why the mill line and the recursion line are stapled to the ritual: the card is both the fuel and the engine that consumes it. The whole thing is a slow-burn contract, three utterances of the same words, and the reward is a battlefield entrance that ordinarily costs many times two mana.

Say Its Name (dsk)
DSK · #197common
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Mill three cards. Then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile this card and two other cards named Say Its Name from your graveyard: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named Altanak, the Thrice-Called and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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Old School
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PreDH
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
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COMPETITIVEBRAWL
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TLR
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