Blood for Bones
{3}{B}Sorcery
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As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
What it does
Tagged as Recursion · Sac outlet — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official rulings
- Any abilities that trigger as the creature card is returned to the battlefield won’t resolve until after Blood for Bones is finished resolving. (2019-07-12)
- Blood for Bones doesn’t target the creature cards to return from your graveyard. This means that, while the spell is resolving, no player may take any actions between the time you choose the cards and return them. (2019-07-12)
- The creature sacrificed to cast Blood for Bones may be one of the cards chosen to be returned. (2019-07-12)
- You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you can’t sacrifice additional creatures. (2019-07-12)
- Once you begin to cast Blood for Bones, no player may take actions until you’re done. Notably, opponents can’t try to remove the creature you wish to sacrifice. (2019-07-12)
Printings & prices
Every set Blood for Bones 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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