Life // Death
{G} // {1}{B}Sorcery // Sorcery
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All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.
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Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to its mana value.
What it does
Tagged as Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official rulings
- Lands that become creatures retain any other supertypes, card types, subtypes, and abilities they have. (2022-12-08)
- If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery. (2022-12-08)
- Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice. (2022-12-08)
- A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery. (2022-12-08)
- Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both. (2022-12-08)
- To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card. (2022-12-08)
- Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. (2022-12-08)
- A noncreature permanent that becomes a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature. Notably, if you turn a land into a creature on the turn it entered the battlefield, you won't be able to tap it for mana. (2022-12-08)
- If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery. (2022-12-08)
Printings & prices
Every set Life // Death 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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