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Grim Return
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rare
Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.
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Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.
A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.79, “Persist.”
Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.
Returns cards from graveyard to hand or library (not battlefield — that is reanimation).
A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.93, “Undying.”
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| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magic 2014#100 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
Persist
Persist is a triggered ability. “Persist” means “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a -1/-1 counter on it.”
Undying
Undying is a triggered ability. “Undying” means “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a +1/+1 counter on it.”
If a state-based action results in a permanent leaving the battlefield at the same time other state-based actions were performed, that permanent’s last known information is derived from the game state before any of those state-based actions were performed.
Rulings
You can choose a creature card in any player’s graveyard as long as that card was put there from the battlefield during the turn. A creature card that was put into a graveyard from anywhere else, such as a card that was discarded, can’t be chosen as the target.
Creature spells that are countered never entered the battlefield, so those cards can’t be chosen as the target of Grim Return.