Revive the Shire (LTR)

Revive the Shire
Casting Cost: {1}{G}
Card Type: Sorcery
Card Text:
Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2, T, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Flavour Text:
In the Party Field, a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it was indeed a mallorn, and it was the wonder of the neighborhood.
Artist: Craig Elliott

Card Strengths and Weaknesses:

• Strengths:

  • Versatility in returning any permanent card, not just creatures.
  • The additional Food token can be useful for gaining life or interacting with other cards that care about Food tokens.
  • Relatively low casting cost makes it easy to fit into a curve.

• Weaknesses:

  • It's a sorcery, so it lacks the element of surprise that an instant would offer.
  • Only returns the card to your hand, not directly to the battlefield.

Deck Utility:

• Green Midrange or Control: This card would fit well in a midrange or control deck that aims to grind out value over the course of a game.

• Food Token Synergy: Works well in a deck that leverages Food tokens for additional benefits, such as life gain or other abilities activated by sacrificing Food.

• Commander: Its ability to return any permanent card makes it particularly useful in the Commander format, where versatility is highly valued.

• Recursion Decks: This card could find a home in decks that aim to exploit the graveyard for value, possibly as a way to get back key non-creature permanents like artifacts, enchantments, or lands.

Revive the Shire provides a solid 2-for-1 effect, returning a valuable card from the graveyard while also setting up additional utility or life gain through the Food token. It can slot into various types of decks, especially those looking to maximize card advantage and synergies around Food tokens.