Dread Return
Warhammer 40,000 Commander 200 • uncommon
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Collector number
- 200
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- L J Koh
- Market price
- $0.87
What it does
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
"Bolters, flamers, plasma—we hit the xenos with everything, and it just kept coming."— Captain Uriel Ventris
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernBanned
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Dread Return was originally released in the 2006 Magic: The Gathering set Time Spiral. The card gained significant notoriety for its role in powerful graveyard-based strategies, eventually becoming a staple in multiple formats. When Wizards of the Coast released the Warhammer 40,000 Commander set in 2022, they chose to reprint Dread Return with thematic art to fit the grim, industrial aesthetic of the Necron dynasty, reflecting the mechanics of reviving units from the dead.
The 2022 Warhammer 40,000 collaboration featured illustrations designed to integrate the distinct visual language of Games Workshop’s tabletop wargaming universe into the Magic: The Gathering card frame. The art for this specific printing captures the dark, mechanical resurrection processes central to Necron lore, moving away from the high-fantasy aesthetic of the original printing toward a more sci-fi horror tone that was generally well-received by fans of both franchises.
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