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Olivia, Crimson Bride

Legendary Creature — Vampire Noble4 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

The reanimation costs nothing but an attack step, which is where this design earns its aggression. Where most graveyard-recursion spells demand a chunk of mana on the main phase, this one folds the return into a combat trigger and drops the target onto the battlefield already tapped and attacking: a fatty that would normally have to survive a turn before swinging arrives committed to the red zone the moment it returns. Note that the returned creature never gains haste; it simply enters mid-combat with its attack already declared, which sidesteps summoning sickness for that swing without granting the keyword. The trigger fires on attack, not on damage, so even a chump-blocked swing still drags a body out of the yard. What balances the aggression is the leash: each returned creature carries a rider exiling it the moment you stop controlling a legendary Vampire, tethering the whole engine not to any single body but to keeping a legendary Vampire on the board at all. Sweep the Vampires and everything dragged from the yard evaporates. That conditional is load-bearing, converting permanent stacking reanimation into value contingent on maintaining a tribal presence. The real cleverness is the snowball: a graveyard stocked with expensive attackers spills more bodies onto the battlefield with every declared attack, rather than reanimating once and coasting. It is aggressive reanimation, a category that usually wants to sit back, rebuilt as a combat engine that grows its army each time it swings.

Olivia, Crimson Bride (dbl)
DBL · #512mythic
Pricing
Normal: $8.19
Foil: $18.96
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, haste Whenever Olivia attacks, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains "When you don't control a legendary Vampire, exile this creature."
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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