Grapple with the Past
Innistrad Remastered 199 • common
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Collector number
- 199
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana green mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Howard Lyon
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Emrakul does not grant wishes. Desires simply align to her will.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Grapple with the Past was originally released in the 2016 expansion Eldritch Moon, a set that deepened the gothic horror aesthetic of the Innistrad plane. Mechanically, the card was designed to support graveyard-focused strategies by allowing players to return a creature or land from their graveyard to their hand while simultaneously self-milling, reflecting the theme of digging through forbidden history to gain an advantage in battle.
The art, illustrated by Kieran Yanner, depicts an archeologist or investigator being physically restrained by spectral hands emerging from the earth. Yanner utilized a high-contrast style typical of the block's somber, desperate tone to visualize the act of retrieving lost secrets, a design choice that successfully captured the flavor of the set's unsettling, supernatural narrative.
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