Reanimate
{B}Sorcery
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Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
What it does
Tagged as Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Get it in a precon
Included in 4 preconstructed decks — cheapest sealed first.
Official rulings
- The amount of life you lose is determined by the mana value of the card in your graveyard, not the creature once it's on the battlefield. (2025-09-19)
- If any abilities trigger on the creature entering the battlefield, those abilities resolve after you lose life. If losing life results in you losing the game, those abilities won't resolve. (2025-09-19)
- In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, the creature you control from Reanimate is exiled. (2025-09-19)
- You lose life after the creature is already on the battlefield. Any abilities it has that interact with loss of life, such as that of Platinum Emperion, apply to that loss of life. (2025-09-19)
- If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0. (2025-09-19)
Printings & prices
Every set Reanimate has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
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