Vanish into Memory cares about the creature's power just before it left the battlefield and its toughness just after it returns to the battlefield. For example, if you target a 2/2 creature with two +1/+1 counters on it, you'll draw four cards, then when it returns to the battlefield without any counters on it, you'll discard two cards.
If the creature exiled with Vanish into Memory never returns to the battlefield (because it was a token creature, for example), you don't discard any cards.
If the creature exiled with Vanish into Memory isn't a creature card (for example, a crewed Vehicle), that card will still be returned to the battlefield, but not as a creature. Since the card returned to the battlefield has no toughness, you discard no cards.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from DDI — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #31 of *Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth*, the set that shipped alongside the March 2012 Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth release.
Card type: Instant, color identity blue/white, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {2}{W}{U} (4 converted).
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #15,377 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Rebekah Lynn. Rarix catalogs 5 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Rebekah Lynn
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