Retraction Helix
Instant
Mana cost: {U}
How we read this card
Until end of turn, target creature gains that ability
on-cast — grants a keyword
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
activated {T} — bounce
- makes an artifact leaves the battlefield
- makes a battle leaves the battlefield
- makes a creature leaves the battlefield
- makes an enchantment leaves the battlefield
- makes a planeswalker leaves the battlefield
Causes: an artifact leaves the battlefield, a battle leaves the battlefield, a creature leaves the battlefield, an enchantment leaves the battlefield, a planeswalker leaves the battlefield.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Retraction Helix is one).
When Retraction Helix is cast:
- Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Retraction Helix is one).
- Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Retraction Helix, Dual Nature exiles a creature
3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Retraction Helix is one).
When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Retraction Helix:
- Extractor Demon — mills a card
- Valor of the Worthy — makes a token
- Traveling Plague — returns itself from the graveyard
- Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature
25 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Retraction Helix is one).
When Retraction Helix is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.