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Reanimate

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Reanimate

Legal

Type line

Sorcery

Oracle text

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

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 in its mana cost, X is 0.2025-09-19

Market price

$8.93

Commanders that play this card

Use over time

21 public decks with Reanimate saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.

Jul 27This week

Often played with

Across the 32 public decks that play Reanimate.

30 of 32 (94%)
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