River's Grasp

River's Grasp

{3}{U/B}Sorcery

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If {U} was spent to cast this spell, return up to one target creature to its owner's hand. If {B} was spent to cast this spell, target player reveals their hand, you choose a nonland card from it, then that player discards that card. (Do both if {U}{B} was spent.)

What it does

Tagged as Removal — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.

Official rulings

  1. If this spell is copied, the copy will not have had any colors of mana paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell. (2016-06-08)
  2. This spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the appropriate colors were spent to pay its cost. It doesn’t matter how much mana of that color was spent; the effect isn’t multiplied. (2016-06-08)
  3. This spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid mana symbol in its cost. (2016-06-08)

Printings & prices

Every set River's Grasp 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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