Return the Favor

Return the Favor

Instant

Mana cost: {R}{R}

How we read this card

Spree

on-cast —

+ {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

on-cast — copies an ability

+ {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

on-cast — changes what a spell or ability targets

Causes: you face a dilemma, copy an instant, copy a sorcery.

Cares about: an activated ability to copy, a triggered ability to copy.

Works well with

a sorcery is copied — 83 cards in the game can cause this (Return the Favor is one).

When Return the Favor is copied:

  1. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — brings a card back
  2. Storm-Kiln Artist — makes a token
  3. Professor Onyx — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  4. Zaffai, Thunder Conductor — scries
  5. Deekah, Fractal Theorist — makes a token
  6. Elemental Expressionist — grants a keyword
  7. Sedgemoor Witch — makes a token
  8. Witherbloom Apprentice — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  9. Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle — puts a creature, artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery, planeswalker or battle onto the battlefield
  10. Ashling, Flame Dancer — draws and discards

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

an instant is copied — 87 cards in the game can cause this (Return the Favor is one).

  1. Kalamax, the Stormsire — When Return the Favor is copied, Kalamax, the Stormsire puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Return the Favor is one).

When Return the Favor poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

an instant it makes cheaper to cast — 3,773 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Return the Favor costs
  2. Mana Matrix — Mana Matrix reduces what Return the Favor costs

3,771 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Return the Favor is one).

When Return the Favor is cast:

  1. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  2. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  3. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  4. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  6. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls

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

an activated ability to copy — 7,150 cards in the game can cause this (Return the Favor is one).

Return the Favor copies:

  1. Havengul Lich — 's activated ability
  2. Captain Jean-Luc Picard — 's activated ability
  3. Chimeric Egg — 's activated ability
  4. Nakia, Wakandan Operative — 's activated ability
  5. Tome of Legends — 's activated ability
  6. Mister Fantastic — 's activated ability
  7. Samwise Gamgee — 's activated ability
  8. Liliana the Repentant — 's activated ability
  9. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — 's activated ability
  10. Ayara, First of Locthwain — 's activated ability

7,140 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a triggered ability to copy — 13,997 cards in the game can cause this (Return the Favor is one).

Return the Favor copies:

  1. Primeval Bounty — 's triggered ability
  2. Pollywog Prodigy — 's triggered ability
  3. Saheeli, Radiant Creator — 's triggered ability
  4. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — 's triggered ability
  5. Invisible Woman — 's triggered ability
  6. Skyfire Phoenix — 's triggered ability
  7. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — 's triggered ability
  8. Vivi's Persistence — 's triggered ability
  9. Endless Ranks of HYDRA — 's triggered ability
  10. Nature's Wrath — 's triggered ability

13,987 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 (Return the Favor is one).

When Return the Favor is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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