Silent Departure — Tactical Bounce with a Second Act
Silent Departure is a compact blue sorcery that returns a single creature to its owner s hand while leaving you with a clear follow up. Play it on an incoming threat to buy time or to reset a creature with a useful enter the battlefield effect. The card reads cleanly and slots into control or tempo lists where a low cost, reliable bounce spell matters.
The printed Flashback option gives a practical late game plan. Spend four and a blue to cast it again from your graveyard and exile it, turning a one for one answer into two points of interaction across the game. In formats where spot removal is scarce this card doubles as a way to reuse removal light creatures and to disrupt combat math. Consider it in blue decks that value tempo and recurring interaction. Add it to sideboards or Jumpstart piles when you want a predictable tempo play that can also be used as a surprise late game answer.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {U}
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Card Type – Sorcery
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Return target creature to its owner s hand.
Flashback 4{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
The same magic that lets geists pass through our realm can force them out of it.
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Power / Toughness – N A
