When you play Water 4 into an empty line, does it return itself?

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Replies read the order as: the played card is committed, its triggered effects resolve, the card is placed, and only then does its middle text resolve. On that reading, Water 4 can return itself. No designer post settles it.

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When you play Water 4 into an empty line, does it return itself?