Raise Dead
Collectors' Edition 123 • common
- Set
- Collectors' Edition
- Collector number
- 123
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Jeff A. Menges
- Market price
- $3.42
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 originally released in the 1993 Alpha set for Magic: The Gathering, serving as a core component of the black color identity. The Collectors' Edition was produced in 1993 as a non-tournament legal set, intended to provide players with a complete collection of the game's earliest cards for display and casual play. These cards are distinguished by their square corners and gold-bordered backs, making them a unique artifact of the game's initial cultural expansion.
The card features artwork by Dameon Willich, who contributed several pieces to the formative years of the game. His illustration captures the macabre, gothic essence of necromancy that defined early black-mana spells. The design aesthetic was intended to reflect a dark fantasy tabletop tradition, and the card's function—returning a creature from the graveyard to the hand—remains one of the most recognizable and mechanically straightforward effects in the history of the game.
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