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Surrakar Banisher

Creature — Surrakar4 generic manaBlue mana

Most bounce-on-entry creatures leave the target wide open; this one insists on a single qualifier that bends the whole effect. The creature you return has to be tapped, and since blockers stay untapped, that rules out the obvious aggressive line of clearing a defender to push damage through. What it can grab is something that has already committed: a creature still tapped from attacking last turn, a tapped mana dork, anything an opponent spent and could not untap. That makes it a punishing answer rather than a proactive tempo play, and the sorcery-speed window matters: with no flash, this lands on your own turn and reaches across to whatever the opponent left tapped. Five mana is the honest price for a bounce bundled with a fair-sized blue beater, where Man-o'-War folds the same trick into a leaner, free-targeting three-mana body. The tapped clause is what separates them: it trades the freedom to bounce anything for an effect that only fires once an opponent has overextended into a turn with their threats tapped down. Read that way, the restriction is less a tax than a sequencing constraint, rewarding patience and converting an opponent's committed tempo into your own. It is a clean demonstration of how one word in the targeting clause can redirect an effect's entire strategic posture without touching anything else on the template.

Surrakar Banisher (ddo)
DDO · #43common
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Normal: $0.04
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may return target tapped creature to its owner's hand.
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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