Back from the Brink
Innistrad 44 • rare
- Set
- Innistrad
- Collector number
- 44
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Anthony Palumbo
- Market price
- $0.21
What it does
Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Create a token that's a copy of that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
On Innistrad, death is just a career change.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Back from the Brink was released in 2011 as part of the Innistrad expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set was designed to evoke classic gothic horror tropes, moving away from high fantasy toward a darker, top-down aesthetic centered on monsters, transformation, and the fragility of life. This card serves as an enchantment that reflects the set's graveyard-focused mechanics, allowing players to pay mana to bring creatures back from the dead as spirit tokens.
The card features illustration by Igor Kieryluk, who was tasked with visualizing the act of reanimating a fallen creature within the grim, shadow-drenched environment of Innistrad. His design emphasizes the ephemeral, ghostly nature of the return, aligning with the artistic direction of the set which favored muted, atmospheric tones to enhance the sense of dread. Upon its release, the card was received as a flavorful, albeit niche, utility piece that captured the resurrection-heavy identity of the Innistrad block.
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