Diabolic Servitude

Diabolic Servitude originally debuted in the 1997 Urza's Saga expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Designed as an enchantment that allows a player to return a creature from their graveyard to the battlefield, the card serves as a high-risk, high-reward recursion engine. The original illustration by Greg Staples captures the dark, necromantic aesthetic central to the black mana color identity of the game, emphasizing the gothic horror themes prevalent in late nineties card art.

The version appearing in The List, indexed as PD3-22, represents a reprinting strategy employed by Wizards of the Coast to bring older, classic cards into modern card pools. By including this iteration in The List—a curated selection of cards inserted into Set Boosters—the publishers provided players with access to staple graveyard interaction mechanics while maintaining the visual legacy of the original design. It remains a notable example of the enduring utility of Urza-era enchantments in various casual and niche competitive formats.