Rescue from the Underworld
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SetPIO
Collector #105
Released2024-12-10
Rarityuncommon
ArtistRaymond Swanland
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Rescue from the Underworld

UncommonColour IDMV 5
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card and the sacrificed card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rescue from the Underworld.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 2013-09-27Newest 2020-03-13Cheapest priced $0.21 in THS
Rulings (5)
wotc15 Sept 2013
If either the sacrificed creature or the target creature card leaves the graveyard before the delayed triggered ability resolves during your next upkeep, it won't return.
wotc15 Sept 2013
Rescue from the Underworld is exiled as it resolves, not later as its delayed trigger resolves.
wotc15 Sept 2013
However, if the sacrificed creature is put into another public zone instead of the graveyard, perhaps because it's your commander or because of another replacement effect, it will return to the battlefield from the zone it went to.
wotc15 Sept 2013
If you sacrifice a creature token to cast Rescue from the Underworld, it won't return to the battlefield, although the target creature card will.
wotc15 Sept 2013
Once you announce you're casting Rescue from the Underworld, no player may attempt to stop you from casting the spell by removing the creature you want to sacrifice.