Mourner's Surprise
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction #94 (common)
- Price
- $0.18 USD
Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "{T}: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
Mourner's Surprise has 1 printing, first in Outlaws of Thunder Junction (2024). EDHREC ranks it #14,068 among Commander cards. It appears most in Laughing Jasper Flint decks (2,470 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Mourner's Surprise most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Laughing Jasper Flint: 2,470 decks
- Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier: 339 decks
- Baron Bertram Graywater: 35 decks
- Vadmir, New Blood: 11 decks
- Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant: 5 decks
- Venom, Evil Unleashed: 3 decks
- Madame Masque: 1 decks
Often played with Mourner's Surprise
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You don't have to choose a target for Mourner's Surprise. However, if you do, and that creature card is an illegal target at the time Mourner's Surprise tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't create a Mercenary token.