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Spellscorn Coven // Take It Back

Creature — Faerie Warlock // Instant — Adventure3 generic manaBlack mana2 generic manaBlue mana

Both halves of this card attack the opponent's hand rather than their board, on two different clocks. Take It Back is a blue bounce spell aimed at the stack, catching a spell after an opponent has committed the mana to cast it and buying a tempo swing in the moment it hurts most. The creature it leaves behind in exile then lands as a 2/3 flyer that makes each opponent discard, converting that earlier tempo denial into lasting resource attrition. The split is coherent because neither mode cares about creatures or permanents in play: one strips a spell in flight, the other strips a card from each hand later, and the evasive body ticks away in between. That coherence also dictates the sequencing. Casting Take It Back to bounce a low-stakes spell wastes the flexible front end and leaves you paying full price to recast the Faerie separately, so the reward comes from holding it until it answers something real. Adventure has mostly been used to smooth curves and hand aggressive decks extra reach; this is one of the tidier attempts to fold control-flavored disruption into the frame, a counterspell-adjacent answer and a hand-attack threat sharing a single card slot.

Spellscorn Coven // Take It Back (woe)
WOE · #237uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card. // Return target spell to its owner's hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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