Vigor Mortis
Ravnica: City of Guilds 111 • uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Collector number
- 111
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Market price
- $0.11
What it does
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If green mana was spent to cast this spell, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Vigor Mortis was released in 2005 as part of the Ravnica: City of Guilds expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. It was designed to represent the Golgari Swarm, one of the ten iconic guilds inhabiting the plane of Ravnica, focusing on the cycle of life and death. The card mechanics emphasize the guild's signature graveyard-recursion strategy, allowing players to return creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield while providing a power-boosting counter.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Greg Staples, who contributed to various sets during this era. Staples employed a gritty, macabre aesthetic to capture the Golgari's subterranean influence and their role as the recyclers of Ravnica’s ecosystem. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional, flavorful inclusion for black-green archetypes, valued by players for its efficiency in bringing back key threats during mid-game exchanges.
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