Back from the Brink
~$0.21 low · ~$0.41 high
Blue. Enchantment
Innistrad #44 · Illustrated by Anthony Palumbo
Innistrad #44 · Illustrated by Anthony PalumboWhat is Back from the Brink worth?
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Oracle text
Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Create a token that's a copy of that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
On Innistrad, death is just a career change.
Format legality
The only printing of Back from the Brink
| Printing | Rarity | Non-foil | Foil | Cardmarket (EUR) | My collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Innistrad isd #44· 2011rare· Cardmarket €0.20 · €0.52 foil | rare | $0.21 | $0.41 | €0.20€0.52 foil |
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Card details
- First printed
- 2011
- Printings
- 1
- Mana value
- 6
- EDHREC rank
- #21,241 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
- Artist
- Anthony Palumbo
What the codes mean
The small print at the bottom of the Innistrad card (#44).
44
- 44Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
Cards from 1998 to mid-2014 print the collector number over the set's card count (like 90/383) next to the copyright line. They have no rarity letter, set code or language code: the set symbol and its colour show the set and rarity.
How to read a Magic card: every part and code, on real cards.
Rulings (4)
2011-09-22
If you exile a double-faced creature card this way, you'll pay the mana cost of the front face. The token will be a copy of the front face and it won't be able to transform.
2011-09-22
Although you're paying the card's mana cost, you aren't casting that card. Abilities that reduce the cost to cast a creature spell won't apply, and additional costs to cast that creature can't be paid. Alternative costs that affect what it costs to cast a creature spell, such as evoke, can't.
2011-09-22
Any "enters" abilities of the creature will trigger when the token enters. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the creature will also work.
2011-09-22
If the exiled creature card has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be zero.
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