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Reincarnation

Instant1 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The design hook is the trigger window. Rather than reanimating on resolution, this hangs a delayed trigger on a creature you choose, and it fires only if that creature dies before end of turn. That single restriction reframes the spell: it is not a reanimator's tutor-and-return engine, it is a combat trick and a removal-response stapled together. Cast it on your own blocker before damage, or on your own creature with a removal spell already pointed at it on the stack, and the recursion comes free when the body dies. The crucial detail is ownership: the returned creature comes back under its owner's control, which makes the spell pointed almost entirely inward. Target your own creature and you refill your own board with whatever you have already lost; aim it at an opponent's creature and the recursion benefits them, not you, so the only honest read is as insurance for your own deaths. Green reanimation has historically been creature-shaped, the recur-and-recast pattern of cards like Eternal Witness, so an instant that cares specifically about a single death this turn sits oddly in the color's lineage. It reads less like a graveyard engine than the name promises and more like a way to make a trade you were going to make anyway pay you back. The cleverness, as with much of Legends design, is in how much that conditional window does to balance an effect that would be priced very differently without it.

Reincarnation (leg)
LEG · #201uncommon
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Normal: $8.18
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, return a creature card from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield under the control of that creature's owner.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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