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Dark Ascension seems like a weird place to print tech for Zedruu the Greathearted EDH :P

Wait...is that hair?

Dat perspective.

Also counters mind control effects. Note that it targets a creature you OWN.

@Totema: It's long, sturdy grass.

The card reads "return target creature you own to your hand" but does not specify whether it must be from the battlefield, or can it be from anywhere? could one return a creature they own from the graveyard to their hand or from the exile pile to their hand?

O hai thar Petyr Baelish

this seems broken.

and 'battlefield' is implied by the word 'target' I think. Cards can only be targeted when on the battlefield unless specifically stated otherwise by the card's effect. Because it does not specify any other zone, it can only interact with the battlefield. Otherwise you could return a card from your hand to your hand. Which would probably break the Game instantly.

This is basically like saying... "See that snapcaster? You get to use him three times."
Strictly better than it looks.
4.5/5

"Target" doesn't imply "battlefield", but "creature" does. If it's in your graveyard or library or wherever, it's not a creature, it's a creature card.

I love the flavour you get by dodging a Tragic Slip with this.

so much fun with loyal cathar

I hope I wasn't the only one to read this card as Saving Throw.

Question i'm still pretty new, lets say you pull a geralf's messenger to your hand after it died once and has undying, I assume it loses those counters so you can undie.. again?

After Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield but before his exile trigger resolves, use this. Because the return-to-play trigger will attempt to resolve before the exile trigger, their creature is gone forever. Feel free to do it again. Then cast the Hunter a third time for good measure. This is pretty easily one of the sickest things you can do in Innistrad block so far.

"The card reads "return target creature you own to your hand" but does not specify whether it must be from the battlefield, or can it be from anywhere? could one return a creature they own from the graveyard to their hand or from the exile pile to their hand?"
-Jehrhardt

"and 'battlefield' is implied by the word 'target' I think. Cards can only be targeted when on the battlefield unless specifically stated otherwise by the card's effect."
-DarthParallax

Nope.

Very simply: The only place that a card that says "Creature" on it is considered a creature is when it's on the battlefield. Same with artifacts, lands, and all other permanents--they are only considered to be artifacts, lands, or permanents when they're on the battlefield.

In almost every other zone, they're considered permanent cards. This is why Disentomb tells you to return a "creature card" from your graveyard to your hand, and it's why Xenograft doesn't turn every creature card in your library into whatever creature type you choose. If they're not on the battlefield (and not on the stack, which is the other exception), they're permanent cards. (Or, for that matter, instant or sorcery cards.)

Saving Grasp says "Return target creature you own to your hand," not "Return target creature card you own to your hand." Therefore, it can only target creatures--that is to say, creature cards on the battlefield.

As for "the battlefield" being implied by the word "target," that's also incorrect. It's being implied by "target creature" and not "target creature card," as discussed above. The best counterexample would be a counterspell such as Mana Leak--there's no zone restriction explicitly stated in the Oracle text, but it doesn't target anything that's on the battlefield. By virtue of what it's targeting--a spell--the applicable zone is determined--the stack.

Very undervalued and versatile card. Saves your creatures from being destroyed, returns undying creatures with counters on them so you can play them again, gains back control of creatures stolen by your opponent, and combos well with ETB creatures. Had a couple in a BUW deck I made in a sealed deck tourney. Pairs well with the likes of: Unhallowed Cathar, Niblis of the Mist, Stormbound Geist (or any undying creature), Farbog Boneflinger, and Archdemon of Greed (if you run out of humans to sacrifice) ...among many others. The inexpensive flashback cost is a bonus. Great card in limited.

Can drive someone using a creature burn deck crazy when you just keep on snapping your creatures back into your hand. One of my friends ended up wasting about four Flame Slashes on a Drogskol Captain. Hilarity ensued.

I use this card with Chancellor of the spires.

Two mana to bring two creatures back from the graveyard? Yes please!

... and/or Cloudshift.

@ Phage123: Sorry, that doesn't quite work. It reads creatures, not creature CARDS, and creatures are creature CARDS while in a graveyard. So you're actually going to look for something more like Disentomb, which returns a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Give me the lamp!"

Reset target Snapcaster for {U} not bad...

3/5 Stars

Created for Geist of Saint Traft. I mean seriously. Try to remove him. I dare you.