Returned Pastcaller is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
Flying When this creature enters, return target Spirit, instant, or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
How it works : Returned Pastcaller
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
No additional ruling has been published for this card.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Storm-Kiln Artist + Returned Pastcaller + Cloudshift
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Cast Cloudshift by paying
, targeting Returned Pastcaller - 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 3Resolve Cloudshift, blinking Returned Pastcaller
- 4When Returned Pastcaller enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cloudshift to your hand from your graveyard.
- 5Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 6Repeat.
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#2
Saw in Half + Burnt Offering + Returned Pastcaller
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Cast Saw in Half by paying
, destroying Returned Pastcaller and creating two token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time. - 2When the Returned Pastcaller tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, returning Saw in Half and Burnt Offering from your graveyard to your hand.
- 3Cast Burnt Offering by paying and sacrificing a Returned Pastcaller token, adding plus an additional amount of and/or
equal to its mana value minus 2. - 4Repeat.
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#3
Displace + Returned Pastcaller + Peregrine Drake
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite storm countInfinite mana lands you control can produce
- 1Activate up to five lands by tapping them, adding at least
. - 2Cast Displace by paying , blinking Returned Pastcaller and Peregrine Drake
- 3When Returned Pastcaller and Peregrine Drake enter the battlefield, their abilities trigger.
- 4Resolve the Returned Pastcaller trigger, returning Displace from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Peregrine Drake trigger, untapping up to five lands.
- 6Repeat.
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#4
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Returned Pastcaller + Cloudshift
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite storm countInfinite creature tokens
- 1Cast Cloudshift by paying its mana cost, blinking Abdel Adrian.
- 2Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, returning Returned Pastcaller and all other cards that were exiled with it to the battlefield.
- 3Abdel Adrian and Returned Pastcaller trigger.
- 4Resolve the Returned Pastcaller trigger, returning Cloudshift from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Holding priority, activate any number of nonland permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least enough mana to cast Cloudshift.
- 6Resolve the Abdel Adrian trigger, exiling Returned Pastcaller and the mana-producing permanents until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, and creating a 1/1 Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way.
- 7Repeat.
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#5
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned + Ghostly Flicker + Returned Pastcaller
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETB
- 1Activate a permanent by tapping it, adding at least .
- 2Cast Ghostly Flicker by paying due to Hinata, blinking Returned Pastcaller and the permanent tapped for mana in step 1.
- 3When Returned Pastcaller enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ghostly Flicker from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
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#6
Rise of the Dark Realms + Phyrexian Altar + Returned Pastcaller
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar twice by sacrificing Returned Pastcaller, adding .
- 2Repeat step 1 for each other nontoken creature you control.
- 3Cast Rise of the Dark Realms by paying
, returning all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control. - 4When Returned Pastcaller enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Rise of the Dark Realms to your hand from your graveyard.
- 5Repeat.
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#7
Ghostly Flicker + Peregrine Drake + Returned Pastcaller
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite storm countInfinite mana lands you control can produce
- 1Activate up to five lands by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Ghostly Flicker by paying , blinking Returned Pastcaller and Peregrine Drake.
- 3When Returned Pastcaller and Peregrine Drake enter the battlefield, their abilities trigger.
- 4Resolve the Returned Pastcaller trigger, returning Ghostly Flicker to your hand from your graveyard.
- 5Resolve the Peregrine Drake trigger, untapping up to five lands.
- 6Repeat.
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#8
Doppelgang + Returned Pastcaller
Infinite creature ETBInfinite storm countInfinite creature tokensInfinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast Doppelgang by paying
, creating five token copies of Returned Pastcaller and of the four mana-producing permanents. - 2When the Returned Pastcaller tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, returning Doppelgang and up to four other Spirit, instant or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand.
- 3Activate seventeen of the mana-producing permanent tokens by tapping them, adding at least .
- 4Repeat.
- 5Once you have infinite tokens and mana, you may instead target any other permanents using Doppelgang.
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Legal formats
historictimelessgladiatorpioneermodernlegacyvintagecommanderoathbreakerbrawlcompetitivebrawlduel
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