Helping Hand
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan 17 • uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Collector number
- 17
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- white mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Aldo Domínguez
- Market price
- $0.20
What it does
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Itzmin walked away from the collapse with a new friend—and an enduring fear of heights.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Helping Hand was released in late 2023 as part of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, a Magic: The Gathering expansion set that returned players to the plane of Ixalan. The card was designed as a white common-rarity sorcery intended to support graveyard recursion strategies within the limited and constructed formats. By allowing a player to return a creature card with mana value 3 or less from the graveyard to the battlefield, it served as a key utility tool for decks focusing on low-to-midrange aggressive playstyles.
The card features illustration by artist Justine Cruz, who rendered the subject in a style consistent with the vibrant, subterranean aesthetic of the set. The artwork depicts a hand reaching out from the shadows, effectively capturing the card's mechanical function of salvaging fallen allies. Upon its release, the card was received favorably by the Magic community as a functional and well-balanced reprint-adjacent effect, noted for its utility in common-restricted formats like Pauper.
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