Reanimate
Archenemy 21 • uncommon
- Set
- Archenemy
- Collector number
- 21
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Robert Bliss
- Market price
- $11.43
What it does
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
"You will learn to earn death."— Volrath
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricBanned
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Reanimate first appeared in the Animate Dead archetype within the early days of Magic: The Gathering, specifically debuting in the 1997 Starter set. Its design serves as one of the most powerful iterations of the reanimation mechanic, allowing a player to return a creature from any graveyard to the battlefield at the cost of life equal to its mana value. The card is a quintessential example of black-aligned resource management, trading vitality for board presence.
The Archenemy version, numbered 21 and released in 2010, features illustration by Robert Bliss. While the original artwork by Carl Critchlow is iconic, Bliss’s interpretation for this supplemental set leans into the dark, visceral aesthetic characteristic of the game's broader necromantic themes. As an uncommon card, it reflects the design philosophy of the era to provide players with efficient, high-impact spells that define the tempo of multiplayer formats.
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