Surreal Memoir
Rise of the Eldrazi 167 • uncommon
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Collector number
- 167
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Jaime Jones
- Market price
- $0.12
What it does
Return an instant card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Surreal Memoir was released in 2010 as part of the Rise of the Eldrazi expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was designed around the theme of the Eldrazi—ancient, cosmic entities freed from a magical prison—and focused on high-mana costs and impactful, board-altering effects. As a card that allows a player to return a sorcery card from their graveyard to their hand, it was designed to support spell-heavy archetypes, reflecting the set's emphasis on epic, game-ending plays.
The artwork for the card was created by artist Dan Dos Santos, who sought to capture the ethereal, unsettling nature of the Eldrazi plane. His design leans into the surrealist aesthetic suggested by the card's name, utilizing distorted figures and an otherworldly color palette to represent the manipulation of memory and time. Upon release, the card was generally viewed as a solid utility tool for limited play environments, serving as a reliable way for players to recur their most powerful sorceries during the long, grindy matches characteristic of the Rise of the Eldrazi draft format.
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