Dutiful Return
Khans of Tarkir 71 • common
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Collector number
- 71
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Seb McKinnon
- Market price
- $0.05
What it does
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
"We have a word for enemies too mutilated for military service: furniture."— Taigam, Sidisi's Hand
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Dutiful Return was released in 2014 as part of the Khans of Tarkir expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was designed to evoke a war-torn world inspired by Central Asian history and the legacy of Genghis Khan, focusing on five distinct clans vying for power. This card specifically reflects the set's graveyard-recursion mechanics, which were central to the identity of the Sultai Brood, a clan that utilized death and resource management to overwhelm their opponents.
The card’s visual direction was handled by illustrator Johannes Voss, who utilized a lush, dark aesthetic to convey the card's function of bringing a creature back from the dead. The art captures a somber, magical ritual within the swampy, opulent landscape characteristic of the Sultai territory. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional utility piece in the Limited format, praised for its straightforward ability to recover key resources during the back-and-forth attrition of a standard draft match.
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