Mana Value
4
Rarity
rare
Retriever Phoenix
Creature — Phoenix
Card Text
Flying, haste When this creature enters, if you cast it, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.) As long as this card is in your graveyard, if you would learn, you may instead return this card to the battlefield.
Keywords
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages
(STX)
EDHREC Rank
#24,695
Retriever Phoenix must be in your graveyard at the moment you're instructed to learn if you want to use the last ability to return it to the battlefield.
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If Retriever Phoenix somehow dies with its triggered ability on the stack, you may return it to the battlefield with that triggered ability.
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If a card is brought into the game from outside the game, it will stay in the game until it ends or until its owner leaves the game, whichever comes first.
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If you bring a card into the game from outside the game in a Constructed tournament (or a Constructed game played under tournament conditions), you may select only a card from your sideboard. In casual Constructed games, the card comes from your collection.
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If you bring a card into the game from outside the game in a Sealed Deck or Booster Draft event, you may select only a card that is in the card pool that you built your deck from.
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If instructed to learn, you may do nothing. Discarding a card and putting a Lesson card into your hand are both optional.
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