Braids's Frightful Return
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment — Saga
- Set
- Dominaria United #85 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.18 USD
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, each opponent discards a card.
II — Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
III — Target opponent may sacrifice a nonland, nontoken permanent of their choice. If they don't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card.
Braids's Frightful Return has 1 printing, first in Dominaria United (2022). EDHREC ranks it #11,998 among Commander cards. It appears most in Narci, Fable Singer decks (1,093 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Braids's Frightful Return most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Narci, Fable Singer: 1,093 decks
- Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern: 633 decks
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead: 111 decks
- The Raven Man: 100 decks
- Neva, Stalked by Nightmares: 64 decks
- Tourach, Dread Cantor: 34 decks
- Urgoros, the Empty One: 9 decks
- Cabal Patriarch: 9 decks
Often played with Braids's Frightful Return
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
- The Princess Takes Flight
- Era of Enlightenment
- Ajani Fells the Godsire
- Chainer's Torment
- Love Song of Night and Day
- Ascent of the Worthy
- Behold the Unspeakable
- Elspeth's Nightmare
- Fall of the Impostor
- Ian Chesterton
Rulings
- : As a Saga with read ahead enters the battlefield, its controller chooses a number from one to that Saga’s greatest chapter number. The Saga enters the battlefield with the chosen number of lore counters. Neither choosing the number nor putting the counters on the Saga use the stack, and neither can be responded to.