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"Find me cards equivalent to: Grim Return"

Equivalent cards to Grim Return (Instant, Black, similar effect):
1. Victimize – Not an instant, but reanimates two creatures for black.
2. Necromancy – Functions at instant speed if used right away.
3. Corpse Dance – Instant, returns a creature card from your graveyard with buyback.
4. Makeshift Mannequin – Instant, returns a creature from graveyard but it gains a drawback.


Reason: Pure instant-speed black reanimation of a creature from any graveyard, right after it dies, is rare. Grim Return is unique in this regard. Closest are Corpse Dance and Makeshift Mannequin, but both target your own graveyard.

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Corpse Dance

Grim Return

Makeshift Mannequin

Necromancy

Victimize

Corpse Dance #89 Instant

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    Buyback

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  • Corpse Dance only exiles the card if the card is still on the battlefield at the beginning of the end step.
  • The effect only grants Haste until the end of the current turn. If the creature somehow manages to stick around until a later turn, it will no longer have Haste.

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    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

    Grim Return #100 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
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  • Creature spells that are countered never entered the battlefield, so those cards can’t be chosen as the target of Grim Return.
  • You can choose a creature card in any player’s graveyard as long as that card was put there from the battlefield during the turn. A creature card that was put into a graveyard from anywhere else, such as a card that was discarded, can’t be chosen as the target.

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    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD / 2.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 2.37 EUR 0.62 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 6.1 USD 0.47 USD
    Manapool 0.39 USD / 1.94 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

    Makeshift Mannequin #124 Instant

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    Cardkingdom / 2.99 USD 0.35 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 1.21 USD
    Tcgplayer / 3.38 USD 0.25 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.56 EUR 0.2 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a mannequincounteron it. For as long as that creature has a mannequincounteron it, it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability,sacrificeit."

    Necromancy #9 Enchantment

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  • The bringing of the creature onto the battlefield and then putting Necromancy on it is all done as part of the resolution.
  • When putting a card onto the battlefield that requires a definition for its value or some other choice, you do what is needed to define the value or make the choice.
  • Necromancy enters as an enchantment and then becomes an Enchant Creature Aura as a triggered ability upon entering. It follows all the rules for Auras from then on.
  • If the creature card put onto the battlefield has protection from black (or anything that prevents this from legally being attached), this won't be able to attach to it. Then this will go to the graveyard as a state-based action, causing the creature to be sacrificed.
  • The sacrifice occurs only if you cast it using its own ability. If you cast it using some other effect (for example, if another effect allowed you to cast it as though it had flash), then it won't be sacrificed.

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    You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

    Victimize #2486 Sorcery

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  • As Victimize resolves, you must sacrifice a creature if able. You can't change your mind and choose not to sacrifice anything.
  • If one of the targeted creature cards is an illegal target (for instance, because it has left your graveyard before Victimize resolves), you'll still sacrifice a creature and put the other card onto the battlefield. If both are illegal targets, Victimize won't resolve. You won't sacrifice a creature.
  • The creature you sacrifice isn't chosen until Victimize resolves. You can't return the creature you sacrifice because it will still be on the battlefield at the time targets are chosen.
  • You must choose two targets. You can't cast Victimize targeting only one creature card.

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    Cardkingdom 8.49 USD / 8.99 USD
    Cardmarket 6.46 EUR / 5.93 EUR
    Tcgplayer 7 USD / 7.87 USD
    Manapool 6.18 USD / 7.48 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard.Sacrificea creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.