KLD: Disappearing Act, Instant 1UU As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand. Counter target spell.

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#2 Posted Sep 14, 2016

Yeah, but it's not a "strictly worse" Negate, you can actually get some utility out of that returning to hand with all the ETB clauses.

Like returning a Torrential Gearhulk and then maybe flashing him in again later to recast this.

master_of_the_universe

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#3 Posted Sep 14, 2016

Cancel, but you also have to bounce a permanent... I'm sure some deck will try to spin that into an upside. God, I miss Familiar's Ruse.

Aejann

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#4 Posted Sep 14, 2016

So it's Cancel with a bit of extra utility at the cost of flexibility. I can dig it, though few decks will actually run it.

Interestingly, since returning the creature is a cost, that effect can't be countered. So it's essentially an uncounterable way to save one of your creatures from a nasty effect. However, it'll probably only be used to abuse ETB effects.