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LegalRemovalRank #696
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.
Why is this card good?
Return to Nature is a clean, flexible piece of green interaction at just two mana. The modal design is what sells it: you're never stuck with a dead card, because at minimum you can exile something annoying from a graveyard.
In a format full of game-warping artifacts and enchantments — Smothering Tithe, The One Ring, mana rocks, stax pieces like Rhystic Study or Blind Obedience — instant-speed Naturalize-plus-flexibility is genuinely valuable. The graveyard mode also gives you incidental hate against reanimator, Underworld Breach combos, or flashback engines without dedicating a slot to a narrow card.
Who wants it: any green deck that wants efficient, reactive answers, especially in pods heavy with artifacts/enchantments or graveyard strategies.
When to skip it: if you can run a more impactful catch-all like Krosan Grip (split second), Beast Within, or Nature's Claim, those often edge it out. Return to Nature shines when the graveyard mode actually matters in your meta — otherwise it's just an okay Naturalize variant.
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