Raise Dead
Limited Edition Beta 123 • common
- Set
- Limited Edition Beta
- Collector number
- 123
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Jeff A. Menges
- Market price
- $11.33
What it does
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Raise Dead was released in 1993 as part of the Limited Edition Beta set for Magic: The Gathering, the world's first trading card game. Developed by Richard Garfield and published by Wizards of the Coast, the game was designed to blend the strategic depth of hobby games with the collectible nature of baseball cards. The Beta set served as the first mass-market printing, refining the initial Alpha release and establishing the core mechanics of the game as a fantasy-themed dueling system.
The card’s artwork was illustrated by Dameon Willich, who contributed several pieces to the early sets of the game. His depiction of a skeletal figure being pulled from the earth reflected the darker, gritty fantasy aesthetic favored by the game’s early art directors. Raise Dead was designed as a fundamental black-aligned spell, focusing on the graveyard recursion mechanic that became a hallmark of the color’s identity in the years that followed.
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