Mourner's Surprise
Outlaws of Thunder Junction 94 • common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Collector number
- 94
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Zuzanna Wużyk
- Market price
- $0.15
What it does
Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "tap: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
"Y'all should've known better than to buy me a coffin!"
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Mourner's Surprise was released in 2024 as part of the Magic: The Gathering set Outlaws of Thunder Junction. The set is notable for its genre-bending thematic fusion, blending the traditional high-fantasy elements of the game with the tropes and iconography of the American Western. This card was designed as a common-rarity sorcery to provide mechanical support for graveyard-focused strategies, allowing players to recover creatures while simultaneously milling their library to fuel further interactions.
The card was illustrated by Zuzanna Wużyk, who contributed several pieces to the set. Her artistic direction for this piece emphasizes the gothic and somber atmosphere inherent to the card's function, utilizing a color palette that aligns with the desolate, sun-bleached aesthetic of the plane. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional and flavorful addition to the set's limited environment, praised for its efficient cost and utility within the specific archetype-driven gameplay of the expansion.
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