Graveyard recursion
Bringing creatures back, once or endlessly. Recursion is why black decks never really run out of threats, and why exile is the removal that matters.
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| Card | Cost | Type | What it does | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reanimate | {B} | Sorcery | Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value. | $9.35 |
| 2 | Victimize | {2}{B} | Sorcery | Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped. | $1.32 |
| 3 | Animate Dead | {1}{B} | Enchantment — Aura | Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card … | $7.51 |
| 4 | Takenuma, Abandoned Mire | Legendary Land | {T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control. | $11.82 | |
| 5 | Finale of Devastation | {X}{G}{G} | Sorcery | Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until en… | $37.25 |
| 6 | Sun Titan | {4}{W}{W} | Creature — Giant | Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. | $0.30 |
| 7 | Sevinne's Reclamation | {2}{W} | Sorcery | Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this… | $0.39 |
| 8 | Living Death | {3}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield. | $5.96 |
| 9 | Rise of the Dark Realms | {7}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. | $6.08 |
| 10 | Dread Return | {2}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) | $0.65 |
| 11 | Whip of Erebos | {2}{B}{B} | Legendary Enchantment Artifact | Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead … | $9.67 |
| 12 | Sheoldred, Whispering One | {5}{B}{B} | Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor | Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, tha… | $21.31 |
| 13 | Reassembling Skeleton | {1}{B} | Creature — Skeleton Warrior | {1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. | $0.29 |
| 14 | Breach the Multiverse | {5}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to i… | $10.05 |
| 15 | The Soul Stone | {1}{B} | Legendary Artifact — Infinity Stone | Indestructible {T}: Add {B}. {6}{B}, {T}, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is active.) ∞ — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battle… | $93.34 |
| 16 | Phyrexian Reclamation | {B} | Enchantment | {1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. | $3.00 |
| 17 | Unearth | {B} | Sorcery | Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) | $0.54 |
| 18 | Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt | {X}{B}{B}{B} | Sorcery // Land | Agadeem's Awakening: Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less. // Agadeem, the Undercrypt: As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it… | $28.94 |
| 19 | Emeria, the Sky Ruin | Land | This land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {T}: Add {W}. | $7.32 | |
| 20 | Karmic Guide | {3}{W}{W} | Creature — Angel Spirit | Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target … | $0.34 |
| 21 | Necromancy | {2}{B} | Enchantment | You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, … | $20.21 |
| 22 | Bloodghast | {B}{B} | Creature — Vampire Spirit | This creature can't block. This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. | $0.92 |
| 23 | Portal to Phyrexia | {9} | Artifact | When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures of their choice. At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its … | $52.30 |
| 24 | Muldrotha, the Gravetide | {3}{B}{G}{U} | Legendary Creature — Elemental Avatar | During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card has multiple permanent types, choose one as you play it.) | $0.59 |
| 25 | Artisan of Kozilek | {9} | Creature — Eldrazi | When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) | $0.47 |
| 26 | Junji, the Midnight Sky | {3}{B}{B} | Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit | Flying, menace When Junji dies, choose one — • Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life. • Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life. | $0.78 |
| 27 | Persist | {1}{B} | Sorcery | Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it. | $1.30 |
| 28 | Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria | {X}{G}{G} | Battle — Siege // Legendary Creature — Dinosaur | Invasion of Ikoria: (As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.) When this Siege enters, search your library and/or graveyard for a non-Human… | $13.47 |
| 29 | Cleric Class | {W} | Enchantment — Class | (Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {3}{W}: Level 2 Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {4}{W}: Level 3 When this … | $1.65 |
| 30 | Meren of Clan Nel Toth | {2}{B}{G} | Legendary Creature — Human Shaman | Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience coun… | $2.89 |
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