Retriever Phoenix
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Strixhaven: School of MagesSTX · #313
- Card type
- Creature — Phoenix
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.36 € · ★ 0.48 € · 0.26 $ · ★ 0.31 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Flying, haste When this creature enters, if you cast it, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.) As long as this card is in your graveyard, if you would learn, you may instead return this card to the battlefield.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Karl Kopinski
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Rulings
If Retriever Phoenix somehow dies with its triggered ability on the stack, you may return it to the battlefield with that triggered ability.
If a card is brought into the game from outside the game, it will stay in the game until it ends or until its owner leaves the game, whichever comes first.
If instructed to learn, you may do nothing. Discarding a card and putting a Lesson card into your hand are both optional.
If you bring a card into the game from outside the game in a Constructed tournament (or a Constructed game played under tournament conditions), you may select only a card from your sideboard. In casual Constructed games, the card comes from your collection.
If you bring a card into the game from outside the game in a Sealed Deck or Booster Draft event, you may select only a card that is in the card pool that you built your deck from.
Retriever Phoenix must be in your graveyard at the moment you're instructed to learn if you want to use the last ability to return it to the battlefield.
