Writ of Return
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SetPRM
Collector #99927
Released2022-09-27
Rarityrare
ArtistKai Carpenter
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesPromo · Reprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Writ of Return

RareColour IDMV 5
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Keywords
Cipher
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
3 other English printingsEarliest 2022-04-29Newest 2022-04-29Cheapest priced $0.38 in NCC
Rulings (11)
wotc29 Apr 2022
If the spell with cipher doesn't resolve, none of its effects will happen, including cipher. The card will go to its owner's graveyard and won't be encoded on a creature.
wotc29 Apr 2022
If you choose not to cast the copy, or you can't cast it (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are performed. You won't get a chance to cast the copy at a later time.
wotc29 Apr 2022
The exiled card with cipher grants a triggered ability to the creature it's encoded on. If that creature loses that ability and subsequently deals combat damage to a player, the triggered ability won't trigger. However, the exiled card will continue to be encoded on that creature.
wotc29 Apr 2022
If a creature with an encoded card deals combat damage to more than one player simultaneously (perhaps because some of the combat damage was redirected), the triggered ability will trigger once for each player it deals combat damage to. Each ability will create a copy of the exiled card and allow you to cast it.
wotc29 Apr 2022
You can choose only a creature to encode the card onto.
wotc29 Apr 2022
The copy of the card with cipher is created in and cast from exile.
Ranked by shared capabilities, colour identity, mana value and type — never by strategic judgement.