You don't lose cards to cascade; they go to the bottom of your library. Which can be as bad as lost sometimes, but this card won't help with that.
Funny nobody mentions the block intent of this card, which is to "counter" a suspend card. Of course, they had this stuff in mind too.
A3Kitsune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Get back any card that's removed from the game when you use it, any card you lost due to cascade, anything essential your opponent exiled, whatever you need and have lost. Works best in Green/White, although works in Blue/White and Black/White as well.
Edit: yea Tanaka348, I guess I missed the bit about Cascade returning the exiled cards to your library. You can still play this while the Cascade is resolving to put any card you want into your graveyard.
Also, I forgot about it burying Suspended cards. It also burys anything of your opponent's that is temporaraly or non-permanently exiled, and can do so as a react to the card about to re-enter play. And it burys Imprinted cards.
Argyris
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
You cannot cast anything while cascade is resolving, because you don't have priority. The only thing you _might_ be able to do has to do with paying additional costs of the spell that you decide to play as cascade resolves, but that gets to be so convoluted, it isn't worth formulating a way to do it. Also, remember, if you pull an imprinted card, it is no longer imprinted. That can be good or bad.
Tezz
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(9 votes)
i think this card should have never been printed, just like research its making the exiled zone just another graveyard...
HairlessThoctar
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
@Tezz
Cards that refer to "outside the game" don't affect exiled cards. Outside the game counts your card collection in casual games, or your sideboard in sanctioned games.
Evermint
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
The only card of its kind. A very sideboardable card.
B/W: Bloodghast returns, and now he's angry.
Stray_Dog
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Love the flavour.
Lord_Sauron
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
How does it work for morphlings? Suppose a morphling is temporarily removed from the game (e.g. Otherworldly Journey), is it face-up or face-down from the game?
willpell
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm surprised they didn't write this as "Put target suspended card into its owner's graveyard" in order to stop it from breaking with things like Time Spiral (the spell) and Restock. With one Azorius Chancery, five Islands and a little luck, you could Time Spiral a theoretically limitless number of times in one turn before you finally drew a hand which didn't have a Spiral and a Pull in it. With Foresight, this could be made even more efficient.
ElMikkino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The first thing that came to my head was that if you use Leveler, you can use this to get back a Hostility, which is put into your deck, saving you for a turn. Then, on your turn, hopefully play the Hostility and swing for at least 16. Probably not the best thing you can do with this card, but just the first thing I thought of. Unearth would work great with this.
Azrael1911
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
It basically says "Target artifact with imprint has no effects."
Nyktos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This + 2× Praetor's Counsel = shenanigans.
lorendorky
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is NOT the only card that can pull cards from exile, Riftsweeper can also do that.
Shadoflaam
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Oh boy, this nerfs Karn Liberated and imprint. We need it for standard.
Mode
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@NARFNra: Actually that's not quite true, Riftsweeper has access to any exiled cards as well. Although i admit he's less useful for such plans in most cases.
Riftsweeper shouldn't really count, since you need at least a soft tutor to really make it work, or some combo piece that fullstops you from being milled, like an Eldrazi Titan, in which case all that matters is that it's in your deck somewhere. Either way, Riftsweeper is too weak and narrow to warrant serious consideration.
Pull from Eternity was worth 3.5 stars back in the day, because it's like once-removed Entomb, and while the potential is great, adding more links to the chain slows you down and makes things a bit more inconsistent, harder to pull off.
Now it's worth about 5 or 6 stars. We have two Planeswalers that mess with the Exile Zone. Beware.
Dr.Pingas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Funny, nobody's mentioned how good this card is with Flashback.
Really hate the design of this card; Should really have said "suspended card" instead IMO. Exiled cards should stay exiled in my opinion. Regardless, this card is quite powerful in the right deck and I could definitely think of a few tricks for it. I'll keep it at an even 4/5 I guess.
with so many good cards that have flashback (Army of the Damned being a personal favorite lol), not to mention the advent of many recent exiling cards (Dissipate gives me ulcers), this card screams to have the flashback mechanic built around it. 4.5/5 for uniqueness and playability
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
All Suns' Dawn. When you cast your 2nd dawn, your able to grab pull from eternity + the 1st dawn, an effective loop.
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The only way to kill Norin the Wary is this.
That, or a clone. But you can do this before the end step.
Ryjhan
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
secret tech against Cipher cards. by removing them from exile you un-encode the creature they were on.
ToidiDiPuts
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I understand this card was printed to counter suspended cards... It also happens to be useful for cipher. ...and imprint... ...and works as a half Runic Repetition for 1/3 the mana on flashback cards...
Eventually I'll build a deck in which Serum Powder and things like this, Misthollow Griffin, and other cards efficiently gain me card advantage or card-quality advantage. In this case, it would act as a tutor for nearly anything in the deck while allowing one to Mulligan to a good hand. Using other various "exile a bunch of stuff from your library" effects you can build a deck that tutors for things when you have this in hand and simply runs normally without it.
This is all speculation, but it'd be a fun thing to do eventually.
demidracolich
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I built an interesting bant miracles deck with this, reclaim/noxious revival and miracles/instant speed draw. Especially fun with temporal mastery to bring it back and then reclaim/noxious revival it to the top of my library.
As the only way to get exiled cards back (that I know of at least) it forms a pretty obvious combo with Forbidden Crypt if you have a way to cast it over and over.
Enelysios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@gameguy602 Doesn't work. You return the card from exile to the graveyard and the replacement effect triggers "If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile that card instead." and the card is exiled again, as is pull from eternity.
TheKazu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wish this card had flashback. That would make it incredibly funny.
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I like cards that say "Nothing is out of reach".
Funny nobody mentions the block intent of this card, which is to "counter" a suspend card. Of course, they had this stuff in mind too.
Edit: yea Tanaka348, I guess I missed the bit about Cascade returning the exiled cards to your library. You can still play this while the Cascade is resolving to put any card you want into your graveyard.
Also, I forgot about it burying Suspended cards. It also burys anything of your opponent's that is temporaraly or non-permanently exiled, and can do so as a react to the card about to re-enter play. And it burys Imprinted cards.
its making the exiled zone just another graveyard...
Cards that refer to "outside the game" don't affect exiled cards.
Outside the game counts your card collection in casual games, or your sideboard in sanctioned games.
B/W: Bloodghast returns, and now he's angry.
Although i admit he's less useful for such plans in most cases.
Well, your deck will, close enough.
Riftsweeper shouldn't really count, since you need at least a soft tutor to really make it work, or some combo piece that fullstops you from being milled, like an Eldrazi Titan, in which case all that matters is that it's in your deck somewhere. Either way, Riftsweeper is too weak and narrow to warrant serious consideration.
Pull from Eternity was worth 3.5 stars back in the day, because it's like once-removed Entomb, and while the potential is great, adding more links to the chain slows you down and makes things a bit more inconsistent, harder to pull off.
Now it's worth about 5 or 6 stars. We have two Planeswalers that mess with the Exile Zone. Beware.
with so many good cards that have flashback (Army of the Damned being a personal favorite lol), not to mention the advent of many recent exiling cards (Dissipate gives me ulcers), this card screams to have the flashback mechanic built around it. 4.5/5 for uniqueness and playability
That, or a clone. But you can do this before the end step.
It also happens to be useful for cipher.
...and imprint...
...and works as a half Runic Repetition for 1/3 the mana on flashback cards...
Throw in Omniscience for good measure.
You're the only one who takes a turn.
This is all speculation, but it'd be a fun thing to do eventually.