Revive the Shire 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.
Official card text
Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ",
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Complete guide
Revive the Shire is a versatile green sorcery that bridges the gap between resource recovery and survival. By allowing you to reclaim a fallen permanent and providing a tasty snack, it ensures your strategy stays on track even after a setback. This card is a staple for decks looking to maintain card advantage while padding their life total.
What It Does
Revive the Shire has two primary effects: it returns a permanent card from your graveyard to your hand and creates a Food token. A permanent card is any card with the type artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. The Food token is an artifact that you can later sacrifice for two mana and a tap to gain 3 life.
How It Resolves
When you cast Revive the Shire, you must choose a legal target permanent card in your graveyard. Upon resolution, the targeted card is moved from your graveyard to your hand. Immediately after, you create a Food token. If the targeted card is removed from your graveyard in response to the spell, Revive the Shire will have no legal targets and will fail to resolve; in this case, you will not receive a Food token.
Common Mistakes
A common error is attempting to return an instant or sorcery card; remember that Revive the Shire only targets permanent cards. Additionally, players sometimes forget that if the target is exiled by an opponent's effect before the spell resolves, the entire spell is countered by the rules. You also cannot sacrifice the same Food token to pay for two different costs simultaneously.
When to Play It
This card is best used in the mid-to-late game when your graveyard contains high-value assets like powerful creatures or utility lands. Because it is a sorcery, you must cast it during your main phase when the stack is empty. It is particularly effective when you need to stabilize against aggressive decks, as the Food token provides a potential 3-life buffer.
Interaction examples
Revive the Shire
CultivateIf you have a Cultivate and a creature in your graveyard, you can cast Revive the Shire targeting the creature. You cannot target Cultivate because it is a sorcery, not a permanent card. You return the creature to your hand and create a Food token.
FarseekIf a land was destroyed or discarded, you can target that land card with Revive the Shire. While Farseek puts lands directly into play, Revive the Shire brings them to your hand, ensuring you don't miss your next land drop while also generating a Food token for later use.
FoodAfter Revive the Shire resolves, you have a Food token on the battlefield. You can pay two generic mana, tap the token, and sacrifice it to gain 3 life. This is a separate action from the casting of the spell and can be done at any time you have priority, provided you can pay the costs.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Revive the Shire
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Some spells and abilities that create Food tokens may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Food tokens.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
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- #3· Wizards of the Coast
You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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