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Introduced | Alpha |
Last used | Commander Masters |
Statistics |
614 cards
6.7% 62.1% 1% 3.7% 3.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 12.2% 4.9% 5% 156 bounce to library cards 0.6% 17.3% 42.3% 9.6% 3.2% 10.3% 0.6% 10.9% 4.5% 0.6% |
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A bounce effect or spell is one that returns a card that is on the battlefield to its owner's hand. It is unknown where the slang term originated.[1] The term predates the card Waterfront Bouncer by years.[2][3]
Description[ | ]
Bounce effects can remove an opponent's blockers or save one's own permanents from destruction, among other uses. The primary color blue can bounce any type of permanent. It also will often bounce a creature via an Enters the battlefield effect. (R&D refers to these as Man-o'-Wars based on the first card that did it.) The secondary color white can only bounce its own permanents to protect them or combine effects. Green (tertiary) bounces creatures as a cost for playing bigger creatures, often as an upkeep cost.[4][5] In 2017, R&D had considering giving red the ability to bounce creatures controlled by the opponent,[6][7] but little has come of it.
Famous bounce spells[ | ]
- See also: Bounce land.
List of Bounce spells[ | ]
White[ | ]
- Alley Evasion
- Angel of Serenity
- Aviary Mechanic
- Blinking Spirit
- Brightling
- Cartographer's Hawk
- Chivalrous Chevalier
- Crovax, Ascendant Hero
- Devastating Mastery
- Dust Elemental
- Eiganjo Free-Riders
- Emancipation Angel
- Glint Hawk
- Hallowed Ground
- Indoctrination Attendant
- Jeskai Barricade
- Kor Skyfisher
- Leave
- Light the Way
- Loyal Gryff
- Meticulous Excavation
- Mtenda Griffin
- Narrow Escape
- Nikko-Onna
- Remove Enchantments
- Rescuer Chwinga
- Scapegoat
- Skyline Savior
- Snow Hound
- Spectral Shepherd
- Steelshaper Apprentice
- Stonecloaker
- Stormfront Riders
- Sun Clasp
- Sunscape Master
- Tazeem Raptor
- Usher to Safety
- Whitemane Lion
- Witch Hunter
- You're Ambushed on the Road
Blue[ | ]
- Absorb identity
- Academy Journeymage
- Aether Adept
- Aether Burst
- Aether Channeler
- Aether Gale
- Aetherize
- Aetherplasm
- Aethersnipe
- Aethersquall Ancient
- Aether Tide
- Aethertide Whale
- Aether Tradewinds
- Air-Cult Elemental
- Alchemist's Retrieval
- Alexi, Zephyr Mage
- Alora, Cheerful Thief
- Alora, Merry Thief
- Alora, Rogue Companion
- Amogaba
- Angler Drake
- Arctic Merfolk
- Arm with Aether
- Arrester's Admonition
- Aven Augur
- Aven Fogbringer
- Aven Surveyor
- Awoken Horror
- Banishing Knack
- Baral's Expertise
- Barrin, Master Wizard
- Barrin's Unmaking
- Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
- Biblioplex Kraken
- Blink of an Eye
- Boing!
- Boomerang
- Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
- Cache Raiders
- Callous Dismissal
- Call to Heel
- Capsize
- Capsizing Wave
- Captivating Gyre
- Cephalid Constable
- Chain of Vapor
- Champion's Victory
- Churning Eddy
- Clutch of Currents
- Coastal Breach
- Coastal Drake
- Coastal Wizard
- Command of Unsummoning
- Compelling Deterrence
- Confounding Conundrum
- Consign
- Consign to Dream
- Consuming Tide
- Consuming Vortex
- Contempt
- Counterintelligence
- Cowardice
- Crashing Tide
- Crush of Tentacles
- Cryptic Command
- Crystal Seer
- Cunning Evasion
- Cunning Geysermage
- Curfew
- Cut the Earthly Bond
- Cut the Tethers
- Cyclone Summoner
- Cyclonic Rift
- Deadeye Rig-Hauler
- Decoy Gambit
- Deliver
- Dematerialize
- Denizen of the Deep
- Depart the Realm
- Depths of Desire
- Devastation Tide
- Dimensional Infiltrator
- Disappear
- Disappearing Act
- Dispersal Technician
- Disperse
- Dispersing Orb
- Displacement Wave
- Displacer Beast
- Dissipation Field
- Distorting Wake
- Divide by Zero
- Double Header
- Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
- Drag Under
- Drake Familiar
- Dream Eater
- Dream Stalker
- Drown in Shapelessness
- Echoing Truth
- Echo Tracer
- Engulf the Shore
- Enigma Thief
- Ephara's Dispersal
- Ephemeron
- Equilibrium
- Escape Artist
- Escape Routes
- Esperzoa
- Essence Fracture
- Evacuation
- Exclusion Mage
- Expel from Orazca
- Eye of Nowhere
- Fading Hope
- Fae of Wishers
- Faerie Impostor
- Familiar's Ruse
- Far
- Filter Out
- Flash Flood
- Floodbringer
- Flooded Shoreline
- Flood of Tears
- Floodtide Serpent
- Floodwaters
- Force Away
- Fumble
- Galecaster Colossus
- Galestrike
- Geistwave
- Ghostly Wings
- Glen Elendra Pranksters
- Glowing Anemone
- Grasping Current
- Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
- The Great Synthesis
- Gust of Wind
- Hakka, Whispering Raven
- Harbinger of the Tides
- Havengul Skaab
- Heidar, Rimewind Master
- Hibernation
- Higure, the Still Wind
- Hoodwink
- Horses of the Bruinen
- Hoverguard Sweepers
- Hubris
- Hullbreaker Horror
- Hurkyl's Final Meditation
- Hurkyl's Recall
- Inscription of Insight
- Into the Roil
- Into the Void
- Into Thin Air
- Inundate
- Inventive Iteration
- Jace's Ruse
- Jace, the Living Guildpact
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
- Jilt
- Just the Wind
- Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch
- Kairi, the Swirling Sky
- Karn's Temporal Sundering
- Kederekt Leviathan
- Keeper of the Nine Gales
- Kefnet the Mindful
- Keymaster Rogue
- Kiora's Dismissal
- Kiri-Onna
- Lady Sun
- Lantern Spirit
- Leave in the Dust
- Leyline Phantom
- Linessa, Zephyr Mage
- Living Tsunami
- Llawan, Cephalid Empress
- Lost in the Mist
- Lumengrid Drake
- Lunar Rejection
- Machine over Matter
- Mana Breach
- Man-o'-War
- Mark of Eviction
- Master Trasmuter
- Meloku the Clouded Mirror
- Mercurial Pretender
- Metathran Aerostat
- Mirozel
- Mistblade Shinobi
- Mist Raven
- Moonbow Illusionist
- Moonlit Scavengers
- Moonsnare Adept
- Multiple Choice
- Murk Strider
- Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind
- Mystic Confluence
- Neurok Prodigy
- Nightclub Bouncer
- Nimbus Champion
- Number Crunch
- Oboro Breezecaller
- Oboro Envoy
- Out of the Way
- Overburden
- Ovinomancer
- Palinchron
- Paradoxical Outcome
- Part the Veil
- Pearl Lake Ancient
- Peel from Reality
- Perilous Voyage
- Perplexing Test
- Petty Theft
- Phantom Whelp
- Phantom Wings
- Planar Overlay
- Portal of Sanctuary
- Pouncing Shoreshark
- Power of Persuasion
- Press the Enemy
- Profaner of the Dead
- Psychic Pickpocket
- Puppet Master
- Quickling
- Quicksilver Behemoth
- Quicksilver Geyser
- Quicksilver Wall
- Quillmane Baku
- Raise the Palisade
- Ral's Dispersal
- Raven's Guild Initiate
- Razorfin Abolisher
- Read the Tides
- Reality Strobe
- Rebuild
- Recalibrate
- Recantation
- Reduce to Dreams
- Regress
- Remove
- Repeal
- Repulse
- Rescind
- Rescue
- Rescuer Sphinx
- Resounding Wave
- Retract
- Retraction Helix
- Rhythmic Warer Vortex
- Riddlemaster Sphinx
- Riftwing Cloudskate
- Riptide Chimera
- Rite of Undoing
- River's Rebuke
- Roaming Ghostlight
- Roiling Waters
- Rona's Vortex
- Run Ashore
- Run Away Together
- Rushing River
- Sage-Eye Avengers
- Sakashima the Impostor
- Salvage Scuttler
- Saving Grasp
- Scourge of Fleets
- Sea Drake
- Sea God's Revenge
- Sea God's Scorn
- Seal of Removal
- Select for Inspection
- Selective Snare
- Separatist Voidmage
- Serum Snare
- Shimmerwing Chimera
- Shrieking Drake
- Sidisi's Faithful
- Sigil of Sleep
- Silent Departure
- Skywing Aven
- Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
- Sliptide Serpent
- Snap
- Snapback
- Soothing of Sméagol
- Soramaro, First to Dream
- Soratami Cloudskater
- Soratami Mindsweeper
- Soratami Mirror-Guard
- Soratami Mirror-Mage
- Soratami Rainshaper
- Soratami Savant
- Soratami Seer
- Spectral Deluge
- Spellweaver Duo
- Split the Party
- Steel Sabotage
- Step Through
- Stern Dismissal
- Stern Proctor
- Stolen by the Fae
- Storm Sculptor
- Storm of Forms
- Stormwatch Eagle
- String of Disappearances
- Sublime Epiphany
- Sun Ce, Young Conquerer
- Sunder
- Sunken Hope
- Supplant Form
- Surgespanner
- Surging Aether
- Surrakar Banisher
- Sweep Away
- Swirling Torrent
- Symbol of Unsummoning
- Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
- Temporal Adept
- Temporal Fissure
- Temporal Machinations
- Thalakos Scout
- Thousand Winds
- Tidespout Tyrant
- Time Elemental
- Time of Ice
- Timid Drake
- Tolarian Geyser
- Tolarian Sentinel
- Trade Routes
- Tradewind Rider
- Tragic Lesson
- Trench Behemoth
- Trition Cavalry
- Trusted Advisor
- Turbulent Dreams
- Turn into a Pumpkin
- Undo
- Unexplained Disappearance
- Unsubstantiate
- Unsummon
- Upheaval
- Uyo, Silent Prophet
- Vacuumelt
- Vapor Snag
- Vapor Snare
- Vedalken Aethermage
- Vedalken Mastermind
- Veil of Secrecy
- Venser's Diffusion
- Venser, Shaper Savant
- Very Cryptic Command
- Very Cryptic Command
- Very Cryptic Command
- Void Snare
- Void Squall
- Voidwielder
- Voyage's End
- Vronos, Masked Inquisitor
- Wall of Tears
- Wash Out
- Waterfront Bouncer
- Waterspout Elemental
- Waterwhirl
- Whelming Wave
- Whiplash Trap
- Whirlpool Whelm
- Winds of Rebuke
- Winter Eladrin
- Wipe Away
- Withdraw
- Wizard Mentor
- Word of Undoing
- Words of Wind
- Yarok's Wavecrasher
- You Come to a River
- Zephyr Sentinel
- Zephyr Spirit
- Zndrsplt's Judgment
Black[ | ]
Red[ | ]
- Aether Membrane
- Archwing Dragon
- Barbarian Guides
- Devour in Flames
- Firestorm Phoenix
- Ghitu Amplifier
- Gone
- Glitterfang
- Grinning Ignus
- Ogre Savant
- Omen of Fire
- Oni of Wild Places
- Pyroclastic Hellion
- Scrappy Bruiser
- Stalking Yeti
- Stingscourger
- Viashino Cutthroat
- Viashino Sandscout
- Viashino Sandsprinter
- Viashino Sandstalker
- Viashino Sandswimmer
- Wayward Guide-Beast
- Yuki-Onna
Green[ | ]
- Ambush Krotiq
- Bull Elephant
- Freyalise's Charm
- Greenbelt Rampager
- Haru-Onna
- Invasive Species
- Jackalope Herd
- Kazandu Stomper
- Kogla, the Titan Ape
- Mana Bloom
- Pangosaur
- Quirion Ranger
- Roaring Primadox
- Scryb Ranger
- Seedling Charm
- Squirrel Sanctuary
- Stampeding Serow
- Stampeding Wildebeests
- Temur Sabertooth
- Wirewood Symbiote
Multicolored[ | ]
- Aether Helix
- Aether Mutation
- Alora, Cheerful Assassin
- Alora, Cheerful Mastermind
- Alora, Cheerful Scout
- Alora, Cheerful Swashbuckler
- Angelic Shield
- Applied Biomancy
- Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
- Banish into fable
- Barrin's Spite
- Blizzard Specter
- Brutal Expulsion
- Cavern Harpy
- Chulane, Teller of Tales
- Cloud Cover
- Clutch of the Undercity
- Colossal Skyturtle
- Crackleburr
- Crosis's Charm
- Deny Reality
- Deputy of Acquittals
- Dinrova Horror
- Dispersal
- Disinformation Campaign
- Doomsday Specter
- Dovin's Acuity
- Dramatic Rescue
- Dromar, the Banisher
- Dust Stalker
- Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
- Fleetfoot Panter
- Grixis Charm
- Hibernation Sliver
- Horned Kavu
- Icefeather Aven
- Kaito, Dancing Shadow
- Krasis Incubation
- Lava Zombie
- Living Twister
- Marsh Crocodile
- Mina and Denn, Wildborn
- Monk Class
- Murasa Rootgrazer
- Natural Emergence
- Niambi, Esteemed Speaker
- Niko Aris
- Noggle Bridgebreaker
- Obscura Interceptor
- Orzhov Charm
- Petrahydrox
- Phelddagrif
- Quandrix Command
- Razing Snidd
- Recoil
- Reflector Mage
- Restore the Peace
- Rise
- River's Grasp
- Rootha, Mercurial Artist
- Savage Knuckleblade
- Sawtooth Loon
- Selenia, Dark Angel
- Selkie Hedge-Mage
- Shivan Wurm
- Silumgar's Command
- Silver Drake
- Simic Charm
- Skymark Roc
- Soulquake
- Sparkcaster
- Species Gorger
- Steel Leaf Paladin
- Teferi, Time Raveler
- Time Wipe
- Trial
- Tyrant's Scorn
- Windreaver
- Worldpurge
- Wydwen, the Biting Gale
Artifacts[ | ]
- Aegis Automaton
- Aether Spellbomb
- Ancestral Statue
- Batterskull
- Blood Clock
- Bounce Chamber
- Cloudstone Curio
- Complex Automaton
- Crystal Shard
- Decoction Module
- Dragon Mask
- Entirely Normal Armchair
- Erratic Portal
- Getaway Car
- Guardians of Koilos
- Ingenuity Engine
- Khalni Gem
- Leashling
- Neurok Replica
- Noetic Scales
- Obelisk of Undoing
- Rakalite
- Scarab of the Unseen
- Slab Hammer
- Storm Cauldron
- Suncrusher
- Thopter Assembly
- Umbilicus
- Wall of Junk
- Warzone Duplicator
Lands[ | ]
- Ally Encampment
- Azorius Chancery
- Boros Garrison
- Coral Atoll
- Crosis's Catacombs
- Darigaaz's Caldera
- Dimir Aqueduct
- Dormant Volcano
- Dromar's Cavern
- Everglades
- Ghost Town
- Golgari Rot Farm
- Gruul Turf
- Guildless Commons
- Izzet Boilerworks
- Jungle Basin
- Karakas
- Karoo
- Magosi, the Waterveil
- Maze's End
- Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
- Orzhov Basilica
- Rakdos Carnarium
- Riptide Laboratory
- Rith's Grove
- Sanctum of Eternity
- Selesnya Sanctuary
- Simic Growth Chamber
- Thawing Glaciers
- Treva's Ruins
- Undiscovered Paradise
Bounce to the library[ | ]
"Bounce" to the library (Put a creature/permanent on top of its owner's library or some number of cards down.) is also primary in blue, and used to be secondary as a delaying technique in white.[4] Blue does this as an unsummoning that goes beyond time, while white tended to do it flavored as a spatial banishment (and the creature physically returns later on). The ability is an evolution of bouncing that maintains card parity, typically costing a premium similar to a cantrip (usually two mana). Some newer designs allow the owner to choose to put it on the bottom of their library, which is a way to prevent the caster from locking out their opponent from their draw step while still removing the target. Despite being an effect present since Mirage (Ether Well), the ability has not picked up a proper nickname. It is now officially referred to as " Return to Library", and has been removed from white.[5]
List of Bounce to the library spells[ | ]
White[ | ]
- Alabaster Dragon
- Angel of Fury
- Approach of the Second Sun
- Aura Extraction
- Avenging Angel
- Banishing Stroke
- Banishment Decree
- Civic Guildmage
- Condemn
- Disempower
- Eternal Isolation
- Excommunicate
- Gandalf, White Rider
- God-Eternal Oketra
- Lapse of Certainty
- Lost to Legend
- Mercenary Informer
- Oust
- Pulmonic Sliver
- Purity
- Quarry Colossus
- Sanguine Sacrament
- Serra Avatar
- Soaring Hope
- Sunscape Apprentice
- Unexpectedly Absent
- White Sun's Zenith
Blue[ | ]
- Aether Gust
- Aetherspouts
- Anchor to the Aether
- Beacon of Tomorrows
- Blue Sun's Zenith
- Bury in Books
- Cavalier of Gales
- Chronostutter
- Commit
- Consign to Dream
- Desynchronize
- Diver Skaab
- Ether Well
- Expel from Orazca
- Fencer Clique
- Forced Retreat
- God-Eternal Kefnet
- Gone Missing
- Grasp of Phantoms
- Griptide
- Guile
- Hinder
- Hunting Drake
- Isolation at Orthanc
- Keeper of the Cadence
- King Crab
- Looming Hoverguard
- Memory Lapse
- Metamorphose
- Moonsnare Prototype
- Nevermaker
- Nexus of Fate
- Power of Persuasion
- Repel
- Revenge of the Drowned
- Rona's Vortex
- Run Aground
- Run Ashore
- Run Out of Town
- Saprazzan Outrigger
- Set Adrift
- Shattered Ego
- Spell Crumple
- Spin into Myth
- Submerge
- Subtlety
- Super-Duper Lost
- Sweep Away
- Swirling Torrent
- Synchronized Eviction
- Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
- Teferi, Timeless Voyager
- Temporal Cleansing
- Temporal Eddy
- Thalakos Mistfolk
- Time Ebb
- Time Out
- Timestream Navigator
- Tolarian Contempt
- Totally Lost
- Vanishment
- Vedalken's Dismisser
- Wayward Soul
- Whirlpool Whelm
- Whisk Away
- A-You Come to a River
Black[ | ]
Red[ | ]
Green[ | ]
Multicolor[ | ]
- Aethertow
- Arashin Sovereign
- Azorius Charm
- The Balrog, Flame of Udûn
- Bant Charm
- Borborygmos and Fblthp
- Cromat
- Dovin's Dismissal
- Endless Detour
- Enigma Sphinx
- Gandalf the Grey
- Hide
- Jeskai Charm
- Nulltread Gargantuan
- Progenitus
- Roil Spout
- Teferi Akosa of Zhalfir
- Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
- Temporal Spring
- Warrant
- Worldpurge
Artifacts[ | ]
Colorless[ | ]
Lands[ | ]
Spell Bounce[ | ]
There are a small number of cards that are capable of returning spells from the stack to either the player's hand or their library. These are often categorized as countermagic, and those that do not use the "if it is countered this way" phrasing are notorious for being able to answer (otherwise) uncounterable effects.
White[ | ]
Blue[ | ]
Red[ | ]
Multicolor[ | ]
References[ | ]
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (July 23, 2017). "Where does bounce come from?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (July 26, 2017). "To answer an ask from a day or so ago.". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (July 28, 2017). "I always assumed that the term "bounce" came from Waterfront Bouncer?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ a b Mark Rosewater (June 5, 2017). "Mechanical Color Pie 2017". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Mark Rosewater (October 18, 2021). "Mechanical Color Pie 2021 Changes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (August 5, 2017). "How do you feel about bounce in red?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (August 9, 2017). "The prospect of giving red bounce.". Blogatog. Tumblr.