Resurrection

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

SufferFromEDHD on Kill 'em with Keywords

6 months ago

Danitha Capashen, Paragon you run enough equipment for the ability to be useful.

Reya Dawnbringer you are running some serious fatties.

Pulsemage Advocate similar to that Marshalls Anthem but free. Breath of Life/Resurrection might be worth a spot.

Chivalric Alliance easy and efficient card draw.

Crackdown mean.

legendofa on Does Feather work with reanimation?

1 year ago

The Resurrection would be put into the graveyard and won't be returned to your hand. A "creature card in your graveyard" isn't a "creature you control"-- you only control what's on the battlefield, and a "creature card" isn't the same thing as a "creature."

Max_Hammer on Does Feather work with reanimation?

1 year ago

If I have Feather, the Redeemed (a pet card of mine, which I will use until the end of time) and cast a reanimation spell such as Resurrection or Invoke Justice targeting Storm Crow, I get Storm Crow back and all that, but does Feather, the Redeemed trigger putting Resurrection back into my hand on my end step, or does it just go to grave?

Pretty sure it just goes to grave as normal, since Feather, the Redeemed wants me to target a creature I control, and I don't control it in the grave, but I figured I'd ask because Boros Reanimator sounds fun and that one elephant from Strixhaven isn't a badass battle angel.

DreadKhan on Super Shivan

1 year ago

Green has lots of stuff like Noxious Revival and Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip that can get your Shivan out of the graveyard, and as I've pointed out there are some White cards that let you reanimate it if it's dead (or iirc take it out of exile if someone exiles it, with Pull from Eternity).

I looked up to see if there were some more decent White reanimator effects, there is Karmic Guide (also provides a blocker), Defy Death (pretty bad), Invoke Justice (better but how do you cast this!), Enduring Renewal (really, really janky), Second Sunrise (very situational), Angelic Renewal (seems good), Breath of Life (solid), Cleric Class (mana hungry/low synergy with deck), Elspeth Conquers Death (maybe?), False Defeat ($$$), Late to Dinner (good), Marshal's Anthem (mana!), Miraculous Recovery (good), Resurrection (fine), Reya Dawnbringer (so much mana). There is probably a few more, but here is a starting point, I think with your Commander the Sorcery ones make a lot of sense, but a creature that can repeatedly reanimate Shivan seem like better fits but I don't know how annoying it will be to Egg into them.

Spell_Slam on No Man's Land (Mageta) [[Primer]]

2 years ago

You know, you could take advantage of the discard effect further by changing up your strategy a bit. There are plenty of playable reanimation spells in White, for example, that would love a powerful discard outlet like Mageta. Invoke Justice is a very playable card that comes from a long line of no-nonsense reanimation spells: False Defeat, Breath of Life, Resurrection, Late to Dinner, oh and there's Elspeth Conquers Death, of course. I personally really like the idea of Angel of Serenity since it can be a very flexible removal spell, a way to protect creatures from a future board wipe, or a triple reanimation spell. There are tons of other reanimation spells in White, so there is enough for a pretty deep theme here.

Containment Construct also loves discarded cards during your main phase. Too bad it's a creature, but it still has potential.

Planeswalkers probably play really, really well with Mageta as well since they typically flourish on clear boards. Most Elspeth cards make creatures, and many Gideons have indestructible, so they survive board wipes even as creatures. I like Gideon Blackblade in particular because not only does he naturally have indestructible on your turn, but he can give indestructibility to another creature every turn and is also relevant removal.

I hope this is helpful!

Caerwyn on Using the graveyard as a …

2 years ago

DuTogira

Alpha already had various ways to interact with the graveyard--there might not have been mechanisms to fill your graveyard with relative ease, but it was clear from the very beginning of the game that the graveyard was intended to be useful. Five cards, spread across three colors (though mostly black) specifically allow you to use the graveyard as a resource: Animate Dead, Nether Shadow, Raise Dead, Regrowth, Resurrection.

Alpha also already had exile, though it went by "remove from the game entirely": Swords to Plowshares and Disintegrate.

Arabian Nights skipped over these effects, but they came back very quickly in Antiquities, which also expanded graveyard shenanigans to Blue, and Legends, which had more recursion options.

Then we got The Dark, which is the first real set to focus on using the graveyard as a tool outside of "get my card back"--cards like Eater of the Dead, Frankenstein's Monster, and Grave Robbers, which allowed you to weaponize your graveyard for additional boons. The Dark also saw the introduction of Tormod's Crypt, the first real piece of dedicated graveyard hate.

Even in the initial sets, it is clear that the graveyard was designed to serve as a possible second hand and, by August 1994, it was clear that the graveyard was to be considered a resource in other manners as well. Saying that it was "originally designed to be the modern equivalent of exile" ignores how many early-game effects interacted with the graveyard, as well as ignores the fact that exile has existed since the game's very first set.

Thebestnoob on You can't spell control with out the trol(l)

2 years ago

Ty Guys Resurrection is only $0.25

Gruul_Ultimatum on You can't spell control with out the trol(l)

2 years ago

Resurrection is modern legal. You can use the gatherer to find cards, but reanimation is generally not used in control decks