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Dread Return

Multiverse ID: 116721

Dread Return

Comments (33)

ttian
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (12 votes)
aww yeah, three for one myself, got myself good
Arachibutyrophobia
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (10 votes)
Better than Zombify...better than Rise from the Grave...it's the best ressurrection card there is!
evenblackerlotus
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (8 votes)
its hungry for narcomoebas
iondragonx
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Way too much fun. Surgically place a nasty with Rotting Rats or Cunning Lethemancer and Kaboom!
FreakyM
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (8 votes)
Narcomoebas are indeed what you feed this card, and a Flame-Kin Zealot is what youll want to reanimate. Dont forget your Bridge From Below or four..
A0602
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Gotta love that flashback. Scrap some 1/1 tokens and get a behemoth at no mana cost. Beautiful.
nammertime
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0) (9 votes)
I think that's the first funny comment by ttian I've read among the million useless often-Storm Crow-related comments he's left.
Comradebananahead
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Use it to get out Prince of Thralls, even in a mono-black deck!
Omenchild
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Not as good as exhume, but def a good, fair, card
achilleselbow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Not better than Vigor Mortis though, IMO.
Tommy9898
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Spells that can be played for free can win games.
Vedalken_Arbiter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Narcomoeba is incompatable. It has to be milled out not sacrificed.
Luke_BPC
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (9 votes)
Dredge Deck mills itself to put Narcomoebas into play, then sacrifices them to Dread Return to play Iona or Flamekin Zealot while creating a dozen zombie tokens in the process.
stompfest
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nice synergy between this and Terastodon. Sac the 3 Elephants to pay the flashback cost and get a Realm Razer.
murder100
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
Arachibutyrophobia, not the best reanimation spell. you forgot reanimate
Plungingforward
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (3 votes)
Saproling Cluster can get this and a mega-fattie into your graveyard while at the same time giving you two of the three creatures you need for the flashback cost.
cats_and_me
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
When dredging and discarding, it's a nice idea to have this card in your graveyard, together with loads of lands, Worm Harvest and something that you want to reanimate! :)
Hayw00d0909
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Sweet card, but I Reanimate.
supershawn
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (3 votes)
narcomoeba is compatible because if you dredge (ie mill yourself) you have a decent chance of putting both this and narcomoeba into your graveyard from your library, then you get to cast this with absolutely no prior investment, along with some big creature you dredged out. you don't even have to put blue in your deck to do this.
Mudbutt_on
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Very powerful reanimator... but not the best. Neither is reanimate.

The best is Recurring Nightmare. I *believe* it's the only one that has seen ban lists and currently can't be played in EDH.
Superllama12
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Wow...favorite art EVAH!!!!! Also, amazing name!
Gabriel422
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (7 votes)
Who knew the "Sac three to flash this back" would end up being the only reason this sees tons and tons of play?
JFM2796
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
I wonder if they will reprint any good Flasback cards in Innistrad. Its only two months away! Shouldn't this card have the Tombstone in the corner.
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
The part i like most is that unlike Snuff Out for example, the effect also works if you don't have any swamps.
So if you're not going to hard cast this anyways, you can cast it from your graveyard without even splashing black.
Corey_bayoudragonfly
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great artwork. Is that Mindslicer? Subtle, Time Spiral, subtle.
001010011100101110
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (5 votes)
Dread Return can't return Dread.
heavyterror
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
reassembling skeletons are more good fuel for self mill.
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.

This card is referencing Mindslicer in its art and arguably its flashback cost (which would play well with 'death triggered' effects like Mindslicer's.)
Cyberium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Kuon, Ogre Ascendant
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
River Kelpie.
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dread Return snagging Griselbrand lets you dredge the rest of your deck. Before Avacyn Restored, we used to use River Kelpie or Sphinx of Lost Truths.

At the moment Griselbrand's even more powerful in decks exploiting Sneak Attack and Show and Tell, so barely any Dredge decks are showing up in Legacy tournament decklists at the moment. But if something in the metagame changes in Dredge's favor, I think you'll see quite a lot of flashed-back Dread Returns targeting Griselbrand.
psychichobo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I bought a few random theme decks from a site somewhere, from Planar Chaos.

One of them, Rituals of Rebirth, had THREE of these in it.

It also had a Sengir Autocrat, and two legendary creatures.

I think it's the best theme deck I've ever bought.
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dread Return? More like Dreadge Return, am I right?