Vanish into Memory
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SetDDI
Collector #31
Released2012-03-30
Rarityuncommon
ArtistRebekah Lynn
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Vanish into Memory

UncommonColour IDMV 4
Instant
Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to that creature's toughness.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
3 other English printingsEarliest 2006-07-21Newest 2021-07-23Cheapest priced $0.15 in CSP
Rulings (3)
wotc14 Mar 2017
Vanish into Memory cares about the creature's power just before it left the battlefield and its toughness just after it returns to the battlefield. For example, if you target a 2/2 creature with two +1/+1 counters on it, you'll draw four cards, then when it returns to the battlefield without any counters on it, you'll discard two cards.
wotc14 Mar 2017
If the creature exiled with Vanish into Memory never returns to the battlefield (because it was a token creature, for example), you don't discard any cards.
wotc14 Mar 2017
If the creature exiled with Vanish into Memory isn't a creature card (for example, a crewed Vehicle), that card will still be returned to the battlefield, but not as a creature. Since the card returned to the battlefield has no toughness, you discard no cards.