Call to the Netherworld
Time Spiral 97 • common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Collector number
- 97
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Vance Kovacs
- Market price
- $0.41
What it does
Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Madness 0 generic mana (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
The ritual was normally performed only by horrors and pit spawn. Lesser mages had but one sanity to crack in the casting.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Call to the Netherworld was released in 2006 as part of the Time Spiral expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set was designed to explore the concept of nostalgia, featuring mechanics and aesthetic callbacks to the game's earliest years. This card specifically functions as a black sorcery that allows players to return a black creature card from their graveyard to their hand, offering a cost-effective way to recycle resources in a format heavily focused on recursive graveyard play.
The card features artwork by Christopher Rush, one of the most prolific and iconic illustrators in the history of the game. Known for his atmospheric and sometimes unsettling depictions of dark magic, Rush utilized a distinct, painterly style that defined the visual language of black-aligned spells during the game's first decade. His work on this card maintains that classic, gothic sensibility, reinforcing the set's thematic commitment to honoring the game's foundational artistic identity.
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