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Grapple with the Past

First printed in Eldritch Moon (2016)

All 10 prints

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Grapple with the Past

Instant

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Emrakul does not grant wishes. Desires simply align to her will.

Illustrated by
Howard Lyon

Legality

Ruling (1)

  • Grapple with the Past doesn't target the card to return to your hand. After putting the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, you may choose from among any creature or land cards there.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Grapple with the Past in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR), Premier Draft 55.6% +1.4 +3.6 19313
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR), Sealed 55.8% -1.0 +2.4 702
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Commander In 2 of 6474 decks (0.0%), most in Thrasios, Triton Hero + Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Share of decks
0.0%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.0% 2026-08-24: 0.3% 2026-08-31: 0.2% 2026-09-07: 0.1% 2026-09-14: 0.0% 2026-09-21: 0.0% 2026-09-28: 0.0% 2026-10-05: 0.0% 2026-10-12: 0.1% 2026-10-19: 0.0% 2026-10-26: 0.1%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
2
2 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
–
0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Thrasios, Triton Hero + Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 1.9% 1%
Teval, the Balanced Scale 0.0% 33%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

No challenge results yet.

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

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