Return Upon the Tide

Return Upon the Tide

Sorcery

Mana cost: {4}{B}

How we read this card

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If it's an Elf, create two 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens.

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast — makes 2 tokens

Foretell {3}{B}

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, create an Elf creature token, create a Warrior creature token, put an Elf creature token onto the battlefield, put a Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

an Elf enters the battlefield — 752 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

When an Elf enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide:

  1. Wolverine Riders — gains you its toughness life
  2. Elvish Warmaster — makes a token
  3. Elvish Vanguard — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Marwyn, the Nurturer — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Woodland Weavemaster — gets +1/+1
  6. High Perfect Morcant — puts a counter on a permanent an opponent controls
  7. Maralen, Fae Ascendant — exiles a card from an opponent's library

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Return Upon the Tide:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

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

a Warrior creature enters the battlefield — 1,401 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

  1. Obsidian Battle-Axe — When a Warrior enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide, Obsidian Battle-Axe triggers

a Warrior enters the battlefield — 1,403 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

When a Warrior enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide:

  1. Mardu Woe-Reaper — hits a graveyard
  2. Thrasher Brute — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Decorated Champion — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Return Upon the Tide:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 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 (Return Upon the Tide is one).

When an Elf or Warrior enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide:

  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 (Return Upon the Tide is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Return Upon the Tide makes an Elf or Warrior 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 token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

When an Elf or Warrior enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

When Return Upon the Tide makes an Elf or Warrior token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  3. Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

17 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 (Return Upon the Tide is one).

When Return Upon the Tide is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — When a creature enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide, Riku of Two Reflections makes a token

32 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 (Return Upon the Tide is one).

  1. Precursor Golem — When Precursor Golem enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide, it makes 2 tokens
  2. Conciliator's Duelist — When Conciliator's Duelist enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide, it draws you 1 card
  3. Deluge Virtuoso — When Deluge Virtuoso enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide, it taps a creature an opponent controls

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

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Return Upon the Tide is one).

  1. Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette — When Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette enters thanks to Return Upon the Tide, it becomes prepared

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