Mourner's Surprise — Second Chances in the Dust Mourner's Surprise gives a tidy bit of recursion with a tactical twist. Cast Mourner's Surprise to return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand and immediately gain a 1/1 red Mercenary token that can tap to push one of your creatures over the line for combat or a crucial trade. The sorcery timing and the token's tap ability make this a useful play when you need to recover a key piece while preserving board presence.
From a deckbuilding perspective this card rewards careful selection of graveyard targets and sequencing. Use it to rebuild tempo after a sweep, to reuse a creature with an enter the battlefield effect, or to create a surprise chump blocker that can become an attacker for a turn. The wording on the card is straightforward; plan your turns around the activate only as a sorcery restriction and get the most value from both the return and the token's conditional pump.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {1}{B}
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Card Type – Sorcery
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "T: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
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