Price$0.70 – $11.54
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Creature — Human Shaman
LegalRank #105
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
2/1
Why is this card good?
Eternal Witness is one of green's most reliable staples, and for good reason: a body attached to "regrow any card" is absurdly flexible. It can rebuy a removal spell, a wrath, a ramp piece, or a key combo component — whatever you need most in the moment. That adaptability is why it sits in thousands of decks.
The real payoff comes from recursion and blink synergies. In any deck running Ephemerate, Conjurer's Closet, Restoration Angel, or sacrifice-and-reanimate loops, Witness becomes an engine, repeatedly returning your best spell. It's a backbone of green combo and value decks, and a glue card for Karador, Meren, Muldrotha, and most Simic/Golgari midrange builds.
When to skip it: hyper-aggressive token or go-wide decks that don't care about a single 2/1, and fast combo decks where a 3-mana value creature is too slow. If your graveyard is rarely worth raiding, you're underusing it.
Run it almost anywhere green wants flexibility.
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Regrowth
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Greenwarden of Murasa
Bigger witness recurring two cards on death and ETB.
Den Protector
Recurs cards and offers evasive recursion via unearth-like flip.
Timeless Witness
Functional reprint with unearth for extra recursion.
Skullwinder
Recurs cards for both players, similar ETB body.
Noxious Revival
Cheap instant graveyard recursion to top of library.
Wildwood Scourge
Different role but green value; skip—use recursion instead.
Roar of the Wurm
Not recursion—skip; better Eternal Command for repeated value.
Printings (25)
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Played by these commanders
Meren of Clan Nel Toth100% of 2
The Mimeoplasm100% of 2
Emmara, Soul of the Accord100% of 1
Leinore, Autumn Sovereign100% of 1
Ezuri, Claw of Progress100% of 1
Disa the Restless100% of 2
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait100% of 1
Combos (8)
- Ghostly Flicker + Peregrine Drake + Eternal Witness
→ Infinite blinking, Infinite ETB, Infinite landfall triggers
- Doppelgang + Eternal Witness
→ Infinite copies of all permanents, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB
- Displacer Kitten + Eternal Witness + Lotus Petal + Snap
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite storm count
- Living Death + Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar
→ Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers
- Displacer Kitten + Eternal Witness + Lotus Petal + Snap + Cloud of Faeries
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite colored mana
- Displacer Kitten + Eternal Witness + Dark Ritual
→ Infinite black mana, Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard, Infinite ETB