
Card text
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
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Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
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Card text
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Writ of Return
This page covers the extended art printing of Writ of Return (143), a Black Sorcery from Commander: Streets of New Capenna (NCC). It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Oathbreaker.
We track no other printing of 143 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Commander: Streets of New Capenna is a Commander product, released April 2022. Writ of Return has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Card details
- Card number
- 143
- Set
- Commander: Streets of New Capenna (NCC)
- Set type
- Commander
- Released
- 29 April 2022
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Extended Art
- Type line
- Sorcery
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Writ of Return
Other printings of Writ of Return in Commander: Streets of New Capenna
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Writ of Return in other sets
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