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CardName: Ethereal Reversal Cost: 1U Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Return target spell to its owner's hand. Portal {3}{U}{U} (Exile this spell as it resolves. You may cast it transformed from exile for its portal cost.) Flavour Text: Back side: CardName: Ethereal Filcher Cost: Type: Creature - Aberration Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Hexproof {U}: Return Ethereal Filcher to its owner's hand. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Planescape Uncommon

Ethereal Reversal

Instant

Return target spell to its owner's hand.
Portal {3}

(Exile this spell as it resolves. You may cast it transformed from exile for its portal cost.)

Ethereal Filcher

Creature – Aberration

Hexproof

: Return Ethereal Filcher to its owner's hand.

3/3

Updated on 19 Jan 2019 by Brainpolice

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2019-01-10 04:13:43: Brainpolice created the card Ethereal Reversal

by Brainpolice:

Another spin on Portal, this time with a mechanism that returns the card back to your hand transformed.

2019-01-18 06:26:53: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

clarified wording to "owner's hand".

2019-01-18 06:27:40: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

Changed to "planeswalker or spell".

2019-01-18 06:36:52: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

Changed Hexproof to Prowess on 2nd side.

by Brainpolice:

Thinking this might be a little pushed? Changed cost to {u} {u} maybe would help?

2019-01-18 07:12:03: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal

2019-01-18 07:12:53: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

Changed cost to UU.

2019-01-18 07:18:37: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

Changed route to simply "return target spell" instead of "planeswalker or spell".

2019-01-18 12:10:28: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

Added missing word "to" on 2nd side. Duh.

by SecretInfiltrator:

What does returning to the hand transformed even mean? Now I can no longer play it? Why?

Wait... Could it be that you are not aware of the rules of DFCs? A DFC outside of the battlefield automatically "reverts" to the front face. ("revert" in the sense that the back face is treated by rules as nonexistent outside the battlefield).

by Brainpolice:

Not so much not aware of but something I forget, and confusing to work with when I'm dealing with bouncy effects.

How else would I word it to do what's intended? Simply "return [Cardname] to its owner's hand", and then it automatically reverts in hand then?

2019-01-18 18:29:02: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

Removed "transformed".

by Brainpolice:

I simply removed the word "transformed" from the 2nd side. It's slightly confusing on the face of it, but since it's built into the DFC rules that the card automatically reverts, I believe it works as intended.

2019-01-18 22:54:55: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

Changed from prowess to hexproof.

by Brainpolice:

Decided to change from prowess to hexproof. Prowess isn't evergreen anymore, and while Hexproof may seem somewhat redundant or overlapping with self-bounce, they still compliment each other. Also fits the flavor of the ethereal.

2019-01-18 23:46:54: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal:

Reduced Portal cost to 3U.

2019-01-19 00:35:44: Brainpolice edited Ethereal Reversal

by Vitenka (unlogged):

Well, I'd complain that this is the ounterspell which never ends, my friends...

But it costs 8 mana to pull that trick. There's already way worse stuff you can do at 8 mana. It's a nasty easy-to-forget sat in exile gotcha; though.

by Brainpolice:

It is a roundabout reoccurring counterspell, yes. Though in practise it's not likely to function too directly in that way. Still, it is considerable that it can theoretically provide you with a constant counter available, as long as you have the mana.

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