Fading Hope
Foundations Jumpstart 310 • uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Collector number
- 310
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Rovina Cai
- Market price
- $0.32
What it does
Return target creature to its owner's hand. If its mana value was 3 or less, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
"At least I won't become one of . . . those things."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Fading Hope was released as part of the Magic: The Gathering Foundations Jumpstart set, designed to serve as an accessible entry point for new players while providing functional utility for established formats. The card is a reprint of a popular blue instant originally introduced in the Innistrad: Midnight Hunt set, where it quickly became a staple for its efficient ability to bounce a creature back to its owner's hand while providing a minor form of card selection through scrying.
The artwork for this version was provided by Rovina Cai, whose distinct illustrative style emphasizes atmospheric lighting and emotional resonance. Cai’s composition captures the melancholic, ephemeral quality suggested by the card's name, moving away from traditional high-fantasy combat imagery to focus on the quieter, narrative weight of a spell that removes a permanent from the battlefield without truly destroying it.
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