Unexplained Disappearance
Instant
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #16884
Unexplained Disappearance bounces a creature and lets you surveil 1 for a single blue mana — that's a lot of work for one card. It's a legitimate role-player in decks that want to abuse enter-the-battlefield triggers or need cheap library manipulation, but it's a flex slot elsewhere.
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 |
In Commander, Unexplained Disappearance earns its slot in blink and ETB-abuse shells where bouncing your own creature at instant speed is a feature, not a consolation prize — the surveil 1 stapled on top is genuinely free value. In Pauper, one-mana interaction is always worth examining, and the cantrip-adjacent surveil makes this a real card in tempo and control lists looking to filter on the cheap. Modern and Legacy have enough competition at one mana that Unexplained Disappearance rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated synergy builds. Pioneer sits in a similar spot — playable in the right shell, invisible elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Unexplained Disappearance is pure bulk — you're not paying a premium for anything here. Pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought; there's no meaningful price floor to worry about.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.