Magic: The Gathering

Saving Grasp

Dark Ascension 46 • common

Set: Dark Ascension
Collector number: 46
Rarity: Common
Mana cost: blue mana
Type: Instant
Colors: Blue
Artist: Matt Stewart
Market price: $0.19

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$0.19market price via TCGplayer · Oct 7, 2026$0.15 – $0.20 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

This card from the Dark Ascension set serves as a versatile tool for protecting your creatures from removal by returning them to your hand. As a common, it is an accessible piece of utility that highlights the defensive strategies prevalent within its source material.

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Card face

What it does

Return target creature you own to your hand.

Flashback white mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Nothing's more valuable than perfect timing.

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperLegal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

Saving Grasp was released in early 2012 as part of the Dark Ascension set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Set within the gothic horror-themed world of Innistrad, the card reflects the expansion's focus on the human population struggling to survive against encroaching supernatural forces. Mechanically, it serves as an instant that returns a creature to its owner's hand, embodying the desperate, protective magic prevalent in the set's white-aligned faction.

The card features illustration by Johann Bodin, who worked within the set's established grim aesthetic to convey a sense of immediate, ethereal rescue. By depicting a translucent hand pulling a figure away from danger, the artwork reinforces the spell's thematic core of intervention. Upon release, the card was received as a functional utility piece for limited formats, noted for its versatility in saving key creatures from removal or re-triggering enter-the-battlefield effects.

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