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Patriarch's Bidding

Card Name

Patriarch's Bidding

Mana Cost

3

Type

Sorcery

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from his or her graveyard to play.

Flavor Text

"Family plots are so convenient." —Cabal Patriarch

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(6/18/2021)
The player whose turn it is chooses a creature type first, followed by each other player in turn order. Then, all creature cards that have one or more of the chosen types are returned to the battlefield at the same time.
(6/18/2021)
Any player may choose a creature type that's already been chosen. Doing so won't affect which creature cards are returned to the battlefield.
(6/18/2021)
Each player may choose any creature type, even if they don't have any creature cards of that type in their graveyard.
(6/18/2021)
You must choose a creature type, such as Elf or Shaman. You can't choose other card types such as artifact or supertypes such as legendary.