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Séance

Enchantment2 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

White rarely gets reanimation, and when it does, the tax shows up as impermanence rather than as a mana cost. The recurred creature is a copy you keep for exactly one turn: the trigger fires at the beginning of each upkeep, yours and your opponents' alike, and the token is exiled at the next end step. Spending a graveyard card to mint that copy is the engine's whole cost, since each creature is exiled to make its Spirit, so you cannot recur the same body twice and the copy vanishes before you can build any lasting board around it. That single-turn lease pushes the card away from value attrition and toward enter-the-battlefield and dies triggers, where a one-shot copy is the entire point: a token Wall of Omens replaces itself the instant it lands, a token body feeds a sacrifice outlet for a death trigger before it would leave anyway. What the token cannot reliably do is attack: it arrives on upkeep with summoning sickness and is gone by end of turn, so unless the copied creature has haste built in, the rental never sees combat. The targeting clause is the binding constraint, since the creature must already sit in your graveyard, which makes filling the yard quickly the real prerequisite. It is reanimation rewritten as a recurring rental, the rare case where white's restriction lives in the duration of the effect rather than its size.

Séance (sis)
SIS · #12uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $0.68
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of each upkeep, you may exile target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Printings elsewhere

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