Rebound
Rebound is a keyword ability introduced in Rise of the Eldrazi which appears on instants and sorceries, allowing them to be replayed a second time for free on the caster’s next turn.[3][4] It returned in Dragons of Tarkir.
From the Comprehensive Rules (November 8, 2024—Edge of Eternities)
- 702.88. Rebound
- 702.88a Rebound appears on some instants and sorceries. It represents a static ability that functions while the spell is on the stack and may create a delayed triggered ability. “Rebound” means “If this spell was cast from your hand, instead of putting it into your graveyard as it resolves, exile it and, at the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.”
- 702.88b Casting a spell as an effect of its rebound ability follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.
- 702.88c Multiple instances of rebound on the same spell are redundant.
History
If the spell with Rebound was cast from hand, it is exiled as it resolves. At the beginning of its controller’s next upkeep, the player may cast it again without paying its mana cost. In Rise of the Eldrazi, all colors had access to Rebound, but at most three each.
Rebound was confirmed on March 2, 2015, as one of the returning mechanics in Dragons of Tarkir, where it was associated with Clan Ojutai and limited to Blue and White[5] In both Storm Scale articles for Dragons and Rise, Rosewater marked it as a successful spell mechanic that fit and synergised with many other mechanics and considered it a 3.
It then appeared once on a new card in Commander 2017, and twice in Modern Horizons[6], thrice in Modern Horizons 2, and a single card in the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Commander release. Rebound also appears in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan as an ability granted by Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch.
Rebound in practice
Rebound spells are meant to be repetive plans for next, this spell will come next turn for free, so you better watch out for what’s coming, this might alert your opponents to take action immediately and you coudl take advantage on that.
