Mourner's Surprise
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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."
What it does
Tagged as Recursion · Tokens — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official rulings
- You don't have to choose a target for Mourner's Surprise. However, if you do, and that creature card is an illegal target at the time Mourner's Surprise tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't create a Mercenary token. (2024-04-12)
Printings & prices
Every set Mourner's Surprise has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
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