Returned Pastcaller
Creature — Spirit Cleric4/2$0.12
Flying When this creature enters, return target Spirit, instant, or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legal in Commander
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Combos 98
Returned Pastcaller + Storm-Kiln Artist + Cloudshift
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Cast Cloudshift by paying {W}, targeting Returned Pastcaller Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token. Resolve Cloudshift, blinking Returned Pastcaller When Returned Pastcaller enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cloudshift to your hand from your graveyard. Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {W}. Repeat.
Returned Pastcaller + Saw in Half + Burnt Offering
- Infinite red mana
- Infinite black mana
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Cast Saw in Half by paying {2}{B}, destroying Returned Pastcaller and creating two token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time. When the Returned Pastcaller tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, returning Saw in Half and Burnt Offering from your graveyard to your hand. Cast Burnt Offering by paying {B} and sacrificing a Returned Pastcaller token, adding {B}{B} plus an additional amount of {B} and/or {R} equal to its mana value minus 2. Repeat.
Returned Pastcaller + Displace + Peregrine Drake
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of lands you control
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You control up to five lands that can tap to produce at least {2}{U}.
Steps
Activate up to five lands by tapping them, adding at least {2}{U}. Cast Displace by paying {2}{U}, blinking Returned Pastcaller and Peregrine Drake When Returned Pastcaller and Peregrine Drake enter the battlefield, their abilities trigger. Resolve the Returned Pastcaller trigger, returning Displace from your graveyard to your hand. Resolve the Peregrine Drake trigger, untapping up to five lands. Repeat.
Returned Pastcaller + Hinata, Dawn-Crowned + Ghostly Flicker
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite landfall triggers
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You control an artifact, creature, or land that can produce at least {U} the turn it enters the battlefield.
Steps
Activate a permanent by tapping it, adding at least {U}. Cast Ghostly Flicker by paying {U} due to Hinata, blinking Returned Pastcaller and the permanent tapped for mana in step 1. When Returned Pastcaller enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ghostly Flicker from your graveyard to your hand. Repeat.
Returned Pastcaller + Ghostly Flicker + Peregrine Drake
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of lands you control
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You control up to five lands that can tap to produce at least {2}{U}.
Steps
Activate up to five lands by tapping them, adding at least {2}{U}. Cast Ghostly Flicker by paying {2}{U}, blinking Returned Pastcaller and Peregrine Drake. When Returned Pastcaller and Peregrine Drake enter the battlefield, their abilities trigger. Resolve the Returned Pastcaller trigger, returning Ghostly Flicker to your hand from your graveyard. Resolve the Peregrine Drake trigger, untapping up to five lands. Repeat.
Returned Pastcaller + Rise of the Dark Realms + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite colored mana
- Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
The number of nontoken creatures you control plus the number of creature cards in all graveyards is at least nine.
Steps
Activate Phyrexian Altar twice by sacrificing Returned Pastcaller, adding {B}. Repeat step 1 for each other nontoken creature you control. Cast Rise of the Dark Realms by paying {7}{B}{B}, returning all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control. When Returned Pastcaller enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Rise of the Dark Realms to your hand from your graveyard. Repeat.
Returned Pastcaller + Storm-Kiln Artist + Daydream
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Cast Daydream by paying {W}, targeting Returned Pastcaller Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token. Resolve Daydream, blinking Returned Pastcaller When Returned Pastcaller enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Daydream to your hand from your graveyard. Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {W}. Repeat.
Returned Pastcaller + Doppelgang
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite copies of all permanents
- Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
There are four permanents on the battlefield that can collectively tap to produce at least {2}{G}{U}.
Steps
Cast Doppelgang by paying {15}{G}{U}, creating five token copies of Returned Pastcaller and of the four mana-producing permanents. When the Returned Pastcaller tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, returning Doppelgang and up to four other Spirit, instant or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate seventeen of the mana-producing permanent tokens by tapping them, adding at least {15}{G}{U}. Repeat. Once you have infinite tokens and mana, you may instead target any other permanents using Doppelgang.
Returned Pastcaller + Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Cloudshift
- Infinite creature tokens
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have any number of other nonland permanents that enter the battlefield untapped, and that can collectively tap to produce enough mana to cast Cloudshift exiled by Abdel Adrian.
Steps
Cast Cloudshift by paying its mana cost, blinking Abdel Adrian. Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, returning Returned Pastcaller and all other cards that were exiled with it to the battlefield. Abdel Adrian and Returned Pastcaller trigger. Resolve the Returned Pastcaller trigger, returning Cloudshift from your graveyard to your hand. Holding priority, activate any number of nonland permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least enough mana to cast Cloudshift. Resolve the Abdel Adrian trigger, exiling Returned Pastcaller and the mana-producing permanents until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, and creating a 1/1 Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way. Repeat.
Returned Pastcaller + Saw in Half + Cabal Ritual
- Infinite creature tokens
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have at least seven cards in your graveyard.
Steps
Cast Cabal Ritual by paying {1}{B}, adding {B}{B}{B}{B}{B}. Cast Saw in Half by paying {2}{B}, destroying Returned Pastcaller and creating two token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time. When the Returned Pastcaller tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, returning Saw in Half and Cabal Ritual from your graveyard to your hand. Repeat.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook. Only combos of 2 or 3 named cards are listed.
Best commanders
Commanders whose abilities work with this card and share its colors, from what the cards do.
- Kirol, Attentive First-YearKirol, Attentive First-Year copies your triggered abilities, which Returned Pastcaller can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Mister FantasticMister Fantastic copies your triggered abilities, which Returned Pastcaller can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of ElementsAvatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements reduces your spell costs, which Returned Pastcaller can use because it rewards an Instant or sorcery.
- Hinata, Dawn-CrownedHinata, Dawn-Crowned reduces your spell costs, which Returned Pastcaller can use because it rewards an Instant or sorcery.
- Samut, the Driving ForceSamut, the Driving Force reduces your spell costs, which Returned Pastcaller can use because it rewards an Instant or sorcery.
- The Fourteenth DoctorThe Fourteenth Doctor copies creatures, which Returned Pastcaller can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Ulalek, Fused AtrocityUlalek, Fused Atrocity copies your triggered abilities, which Returned Pastcaller can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Kykar, Wind's FuryReturned Pastcaller is a Spirit, which Kykar, Wind's Fury can use.
- Hofri GhostforgeReturned Pastcaller is a Spirit, which Hofri Ghostforge can use.
- Quintorius, LoremasterReturned Pastcaller is a Spirit, which Quintorius, Loremaster can use.