366 MTG cards found that are Rules Text: Leaves the battlefield in the official Magic: The Gathering Database.. Effects that check a phased-in permanent's history won't treat the phasing event as having caused the permanent to leave or enter the battlefield or its controller's control. In regards to your specific question. It does not matter what action causes the permanent to leave the battlefield zone. The only requirement is that it does change.
"Leave the graveyard" cards in Magic: The Gathering have abilities that trigger when cards move from the graveyard to another zone. This can happen through mechanics like delve and forage, exile effects, reanimation effects that return cards to the battlefield, or recursion effects that return cards to your hand.. Most rules arguments around dies vs leaves the battlefield are just people using the wrong word for the right event. And tokens add a special garnish: they can die, they can get exiled, they can get bounced… and then they promptly stop existing, like they remembered they left the oven on.