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Shepherd of the Flock // Usher to Safety

Creature — Human Peasant // Instant — Adventure1 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

White's oldest structural problem is that a protective effect wants to be an instant, but an instant is a dead draw once the crisis has passed. The Adventure split resolves that tension by welding both halves to one card. Usher to Safety is a one-mana bounce that returns any permanent you control to your hand: reset an enters-the-battlefield trigger, replay an Adventure creature to run its loop again, or, cast in response to targeted removal or a sacrifice effect, snatch the threatened permanent back to hand before the spell or ability resolves. That last window is the sharpest use, and it depends on the timing being right: the bounce has to answer the removal while it is still on the stack, before the permanent is destroyed. The reason to accept a fragile 3/1 Human is that the front half and the back half are never dead at the same moment. When the bounce resolves, the card does not go to the graveyard; it exiles, and the body waits there to be cast on a later turn. So the spell that saved your board also banks a beater for next turn, a two-for-one spread across two casts. It rewards decks stacked with recurring value on cheap permanents, where saving a token generator or a mana rock from a wrath is worth an entire card, and where a vanilla-ish creature held in reserve costs nothing.

Shepherd of the Flock // Usher to Safety (eld)
ELD · #278uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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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