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Reenact the Crime

Instant1 generic manaBlue manaBlue manaBlue mana

The word "this turn" is the entire design, and it makes for one of the fussiest instant-speed effects blue has: the target must have entered a graveyard the very turn you cast this, which converts a would-be recursion spell into a reaction to what just happened at the table. That constraint dictates when the card is even castable. It wants something freshly dead and, ideally, freshly dead by your own hand: a creature you sacrificed, a spell an opponent just countered into the yard, a body that fell in combat, a discard payoff you pitched a beat ago. Because the spell targets a card in a graveyard, the sequencing is precise: to steal a creature an opponent killed, you cast this after their removal has resolved and the creature is actually in the yard, not in response to the spell that kills it. The triple-blue commitment prices the flexibility, pinning it to a heavily blue manabase rather than a splash. What separates this from ordinary reanimation is that it exiles and copies rather than returning the original, so you get a fresh cast (enters-the-battlefield triggers, cast triggers, the whole spell resolving again) at instant speed, for free. That copying comes with a vulnerability worth naming: because it targets, instant-speed graveyard hate that exiles the card in response leaves this with no legal target, and it fizzles. The heist framing is earned; the crime already happened, and this reconstructs it before the turn's window slams shut.

Reenact the Crime (mkm)
MKM · #70rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile target nonland card in a graveyard that was put there from anywhere this turn. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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