Recurring Nightmare
World Championship Decks 1998 bs72 • rare
- Set
- World Championship Decks 1998
- Collector number
- bs72
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Jeff Laubenstein
- Finish
- Gold
What it does
Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
"I am confined by sleep and defined by nightmare."— Crovax
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderBanned
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Recurring Nightmare was originally printed in the 1997 Exhume expansion, designed by Richard Garfield to facilitate graveyard recursion strategies in Magic: The Gathering. Its unique ability to trade a creature in play for one in the graveyard, then return to the hand, quickly became a centerpiece for competitive combo decks due to its efficiency and resilience. The design reflects the high-synergy, high-power level of the late 1990s era of the game.
The 1998 World Championship Decks were commemorative products featuring exact replicas of the decks piloted by the top players at the 1998 World Championships. This specific version of Recurring Nightmare features a gold-bordered back and unique tournament-stamped card face, serving as a snapshot of how the card was utilized in professional sideboards and main decks during that year’s competitive meta. Because these cards are not tournament legal, they are collected primarily for their historical significance to the game's competitive growth.
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