Price$1.64 – $4.31
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LegalCard DrawRank #642
Return target spell to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Why is this card good?
Reprieve is white's best answer to the eternal problem: white has almost no counterspells. For two mana, you bounce any spell back to hand, taxing the caster a full turn while you cantrip to stay even on cards.
The key distinction: this is a tempo play, not a hard answer. They get the spell back and can recast it, so it's not great against cheap threats. Where it shines is buying time against a critical play — countering a game-ending combo piece, a lethal X-spell (they have to refind the mana), or that backbreaking board wipe right before your alpha strike.
Best in white-heavy decks that can't reach blue interaction — mono-white, white aggro/tokens, Voltron, and stax shells that want to disrupt without splashing. The free card replacement makes it nearly costless to include.
Skip it if you're already in blue with real counterspells, or in slow durdle decks where one-turn tempo swings don't matter. It's interaction for proactive, tempo-oriented strategies.
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