Dramatic Rescue
Instant
Return target creature to its owner's hand. You gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #19962
Dramatic Rescue bounces a creature you control and puts a +1/+1 counter on another — two relevant effects stapled to a two-mana instant. The cost is real: you're spending a card and two mana to do something your opponent didn't force you to do, so it only earns its slot when both halves pull weight.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dramatic Rescue sees essentially all of its play, and even there it's a niche inclusion. The bounce protects a key creature from removal or tucks it back to reuse an enter-the-battlefield trigger, while the counter shores up an attacker or blocker — but at two mana and a card, decks with access to better protection spells rarely need it. In Pauper it's legal and the commons pool is shallow enough that the double utility has occasional fringe appeal in blink or counter-synergy shells. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage are all legal but functionally irrelevant — the effect is too low-impact to compete in any of those environments.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Dramatic Rescue is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. That price is stable because demand is low and supply is essentially infinite; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.