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Glyph of Reincarnation

InstantGreen mana

The Glyph cycle in Legends imagined Walls as ritual surfaces that channeled magic when struck, and this one reads the impact as a soul-debt: every creature that crashed into your Wall this turn dies, and each death pays for a resurrection. The balancing friction is the post-combat restriction. Casting it only after combat means the Wall has to survive the swing for the Glyph to fire, the attackers have to actually be the ones blocked (not just declared and rerouted), and the reanimation pool is keyed to the player who controlled the dying creature the last time it became blocked by that specific Wall. That last clause is the wild part: the card tracks a historical game state per-creature, per-Wall, to decide whose graveyard each returnee comes from. Crucially, the card you bring back is not the attacker that just died: each death lets the controlling player return any creature card from their graveyard, so the spell punishes the aggressor while handing them a rebuild. The bookkeeping is famously gnarly, the kind of templating Legends shipped before the rules engine had vocabulary for it. What survives is the intent: a one-mana green instant that turns a board-wide assault into reanimation fuel routed back through the attacking players' own graveyards. A reanimation spell disguised as a wrath, priced like a cantrip.

Glyph of Reincarnation (leg)
LEG · #189common
Pricing
Normal: $0.47
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Cast this spell only after combat. Destroy all creatures that were blocked by target Wall this turn. They can't be regenerated. For each creature that died this way, put a creature card from the graveyard of the player who controlled that creature the last time it became blocked by that Wall onto the battlefield under its owner's control.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
Legal
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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