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Summon Undead

Sorcery4 generic manaBlack mana

The self-mill here is not a downside grafted onto a reanimation spell: it is the fuel line. Most cheap reanimation demands a graveyard already stocked through discard, fetchlands, or an earlier turn's dredging. This design collapses setup and payoff into a single card, binning three off the top and then pulling a creature back, so the very act of casting it can dig up its own target. That self-sufficiency comes with a random dig and a middling five mana: you are trusting the top three cards to either bin a fat threat you can then return, or to have already put one there for you. The price buys unconditional reanimation with no restriction on the returned creature's power, converting library mass into a body without demanding a discard outlet or a pre-loaded yard. It belongs to the reliable, grind-it-out branch of black reanimation rather than the turn-one Reanimator explosions, but the ordering baked into the text is what distinguishes it: the mill resolves first, so the fill and the return happen in one cast rather than across two cards or two turns. The whole exchange lives or dies on whatever those three cards happen to be, which makes it a self-contained engine for decks that would rather find their reanimation target than have to draw it first.

Summon Undead (clb)
CLB · #151common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

You may mill three cards. Then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

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