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Skullwinder
Card Information
Type: Creature — Snake
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 256
Oracle Text
Deathtouch When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 10, 2022
You may choose an opponent with no cards in their graveyard. In that case, they will not get to return anything.
Source: wotc - June 10, 2022
The chosen opponent gets to choose which card to return from their graveyard to their hand.
Source: wotc - June 10, 2022
Skullwinder's enters-the-battlefield ability targets only the card in your graveyard. If that card is an illegal target as the ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No cards will be returned to any player's hand.
Source: wotc - June 10, 2022
You choose the target card as you put Skullwinder's triggered ability on the stack, but you don't choose an opponent until after you have returned the card to your hand.
Source: wotc - November 4, 2015
Skullwinder's enters-the-battlefield ability targets only the card in your graveyard. If that card is an illegal target as the ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No cards will be returned to any player's hand.
Source: wotc - November 4, 2015
You choose the opponent as the ability is resolving. You may choose an opponent with no cards in their graveyard.
Source: wotc
Price History
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