Never // Return

Never // Return

Sorcery // Sorcery

Mana cost: {1}{B}{B} // {3}{B}

How we read this card

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

on-cast —

Aftermath
Exile target card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

on-cast — hits a graveyard

on-cast — makes a token

Causes: a creature dies, a planeswalker is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, create a Zombie creature token, put a Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a planeswalker in a graveyard — 232 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

Never // Return puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer — can bring back
  2. The Eldest Reborn — can bring back
  3. Yawgmoth's Vile Offering — can bring back
  4. Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen — can bring back
  5. Breach the Multiverse — can bring back
  6. Command the Dreadhorde — can bring back
  7. Narset, Enlightened Exile — can bring back
  8. Fallaji Archaeologist — can bring back
  9. Chandra, Chill of Compliance — can bring back

66 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Zombie enters the battlefield — 795 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Never // Return:

  1. Noxious Ghoul — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Geralf, the Fleshwright — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Wayward Servant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Champion of the Perished — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Mummy Paramount — gets +1/+1
  6. Unconventional Tactics — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Binding Mummy — taps a creature or artifact

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Never // Return, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

Never // Return puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — can bring back
  3. Afterlife from the Loam — can bring back
  4. Crypt Champion — can bring back
  5. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — can bring back
  6. Push // Pull — can bring back
  7. Vivien on the Hunt — can bring back
  8. Virtus's Maneuver — can bring back
  9. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  10. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Never // Return:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard
  5. Ghoulish Procession — makes a token
  6. Ogre Slumlord — makes a token
  7. Minotaur, Roxxon CEO — makes a token
  8. Harvester of Souls — draws you 1 card
  9. Magus of the Bridge — exiles itself
  10. Koh, the Face Stealer — exiles it

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Never // Return:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Never // Return makes a Zombie token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Never // Return:

  1. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back
  2. Avatar Destiny — mills a card
  3. Blood Spatter Analysis — mills a card
  4. Shadows of the Past — scries
  5. Shriveling Rot — makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  6. Meathook Massacre II — brings a card back
  7. Saffi Eriksdotter — sacrifices itself

458 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

When Never // Return is cast:

  1. The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  3. Cyclops Superconductor — gets +1/+1
  4. Jeskai Sage — gets +1/+1

430 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Never // Return puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

443 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Never is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Never // Return:

  1. Liliana the Repentant — mills a card
  2. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — gains you 1 life
  3. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — gains you 1 life
  4. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — gains you 1 life
  5. Boss's Chauffeur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

480 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.