Pyrrhic Revival

Pyrrhic Revival

{3}{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}Sorcery

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Each player returns each creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.

What it does

Tagged as Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.

Official rulings

  1. Pyrrhic Revival can cause creatures to be put onto the battlefield that have 0 toughness due to the -1/-1 counter from this effect. Those creatures are put right back into their owners' graveyards as a state-based action. No spells or abilities that would remove counters or otherwise affect those creatures can be cast or activated before that happens. Still, the creatures did momentarily pop onto the battlefield, so any relevant triggered abilities (including their own "enters" or leaves-the-battlefield abilities) will trigger. They'll be put on the stack after state-based actions are checked. (2008-08-01)

Printings & prices

Every set Pyrrhic Revival 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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