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Wildwood Escort

Creature — Elf Warrior4 generic manaGreen mana

The first line is the boilerplate: a green body that returns a creature to hand on entry is old, common-rarity value work, and the 3/3 attached to it is fair to the point of forgettable. The design interest sits in the second clause, though not for the reason a first read suggests. Exiling itself on death does not shut down blink recursion (a blinked creature is exiled and returned without ever dying, so the replacement effect never fires): what it actually closes is the sacrifice-and-reanimate line. Feed this to a sacrifice outlet, and it leaves the battlefield without stopping in the graveyard, so nothing brings the body back for a second return trigger. That is the discipline holding the card in check: you get the recursion once per copy, and the value it grants cannot be recycled through its own repeated death. The quieter wrinkle is what it can retrieve. Reaching a creature or a battle card widens the pool past the usual Gravedigger-style creature-only recursion; battle cards are a newer object type, and handing a green common a way to rebuy a Siege it lost is a small nod to keeping that mechanic supported outside the colors that most naturally engage with it. Neither clause is loud, but the pairing is coherent: a body that pulls a card back, then takes itself out of the loop so the pull stays a one-time effect.

Wildwood Escort (mom)
MOM · #216common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, return target creature or battle card from your graveyard to your hand. If this creature would die, exile it instead.
Legalities

Format Status

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