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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30 of 2,921 cards the search scored · read as graveyardreanimationrecursionUnearth
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Reanimate
95%

Reanimate SorceryPut target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.$9.35

Victimize
94%

Victimize SorceryChoose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield ta$1.32

Animate Dead
95%

Animate Dead Enchantment — AuraEnchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a grave$7.51

Finale of Devastation
93%

Finale of Devastation SorcerySearch your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search $37.25

Sevinne's Reclamation
85%

Sevinne's Reclamation SorceryReturn target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a grave$0.39

Living Death
89%

Living Death SorceryEach player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they e$5.96

Rise of the Dark Realms
91%

Rise of the Dark Realms SorceryPut all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.$6.08

Dread Return
95%

Dread Return SorceryReturn target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card f$0.65

Whip of Erebos
96%

Whip of Erebos Legendary Enchantment ArtifactCreatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains $9.67

Sheoldred, Whispering One
95%

Sheoldred, Whispering One Legendary Creature — Phyrexian PraetorSwampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return t$21.31

Reassembling Skeleton
90%

Reassembling Skeleton Creature — Skeleton Warrior{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.$0.29

Breach the Multiverse
90%

Breach the Multiverse SorceryEach player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards o$10.05

The Soul Stone
93%

The Soul Stone Legendary Artifact — Infinity StoneIndestructible {T}: Add {B}. {6}{B}, {T}, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is $93.34

Unearth
89%

Unearth SorceryReturn target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card:$0.54

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
95%

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt Sorcery // LandAgadeem's Awakening: Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different $28.94

Emeria, the Sky Ruin
93%

Emeria, the Sky Ruin LandThis land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card$7.32

Karmic Guide
95%

Karmic Guide Creature — Angel SpiritFlying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning$0.34

Necromancy
94%

Necromancy EnchantmentYou 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 p$20.21

Bloodghast
92%

Bloodghast Creature — Vampire SpiritThis creature can't block. This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land you cont$0.92

Portal to Phyrexia
92%

Portal to Phyrexia ArtifactWhen this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures of their choice. At the beginning of your upkeep, put target c$52.30

Muldrotha, the Gravetide
83%

Muldrotha, the Gravetide Legendary Creature — Elemental AvatarDuring each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card h$0.59

Artisan of Kozilek
93%

Artisan of Kozilek Creature — EldraziWhen you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Annihilator 2 (Whenever this$0.47

Junji, the Midnight Sky
90%

Junji, the Midnight Sky Legendary Creature — Dragon SpiritFlying, menace When Junji dies, choose one — • Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life. • Put target non-Dragon creature$0.78

Persist
92%

Persist SorceryReturn target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.$1.30

Cleric Class
92%

Cleric Class 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}: Lev$1.65

Meren of Clan Nel Toth
96%

Meren of Clan Nel Toth Legendary Creature — Human ShamanWhenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your end step, choose target creatu$2.89

Patriarch's Bidding
94%

Patriarch's Bidding SorceryEach player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the $3.87

Eerie Ultimatum
80%

Eerie Ultimatum SorceryReturn any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.$3.38

Chainer, Nightmare Adept
89%

Chainer, Nightmare Adept Legendary Creature — Human MinionDiscard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken cre$0.89

Stitch Together
85%

Stitch Together SorceryReturn target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield $1.42

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