Patriarch's Bidding (Onslaught) - Gatherer

Patriarch's Bidding

Community Rating:

Community Rating: 4.298 / 5 (62 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Patriarch's Bidding

Mana Cost:

Converted Mana Cost:

Types:

Sorcery

Card Text:

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Flavor Text:

"Family plots are so convenient."

—Cabal Patriarch

Expansion:

Onslaught

Rarity:

Rare

All Sets:

Card Number:

161

Artist:

Ben Thompson

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.