Fading Hope: Clean Bounce and a Little Insight
Fading Hope is a single blue mana instant that does what blue does best, answers a threat and preserves tempo. Cast Fading Hope to return a creature to its owner’s hand, buying you a turn and clearing a blocker or attacker. If the bounced creature had a mana value of 3 or less you also get to scry 1, letting you tidy up your next draw and keep your lines clear.
This card fits neatly into control shells and tempo lists where one mana interaction matters. Use Fading Hope to reset an opposing permanent before a key combat, to protect your own creature from removal, or to repeatedly trigger enter the battlefield effects. Practical, flexible and efficient, the card rewards timing and sequencing and pairs well with cards that care about casting instants on the opponent’s end step.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {U}
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Card Type – Instant
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Return target creature to its owner’s hand. If its mana value was 3 or less, scry 1.
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