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Necromancy

Enchantment2 generic manaBlack mana

The reanimation spell that gives you the body but reserves the right to take it back, and the rules text buys two very different cards off a single payment. Cast it at sorcery speed and the creature is yours to keep, anchored to an Aura that sacrifices it only if the enchantment leaves. Use the built-in flash to drop it during an opponent's turn and the deal changes entirely: the next cleanup step arrives at the end of that same turn, so the creature is gone before you ever untap. The flash mode is not a free attacker; it is an instant-speed way to set up a leaves-the-battlefield trigger, dodge a sorcery-speed window, or pull a creature out of any graveyard for a surprise blocker that lasts one turn. The friction that balances the rate is that the body is never truly free; it lives and dies with the enchantment, so any disenchant, any bounce, any blink of the Aura takes the creature with it. That fragility is also the engine: sacrifice the enchantment to your own outlet and the creature dies as a leaves-the-battlefield trigger you can chain into death payoffs. Where blunter reanimation simply moves a card from graveyard to battlefield and walks away, this one stays attached as a leash, which is exactly what makes it the most interactive and the most abusable of the cheap reanimators.

Necromancy (plst)
PLST · #VIS-64uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $19.35
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Oracle Text

Rules text

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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