Dreams of the Dead
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SetICE
Collector #66
Released1995-06-03
Rarityuncommon
ArtistHeather Hudson
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Dreams of the Dead

UncommonColour IDMV 4
Enchantment
: Return target white or black creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains "Cumulative upkeep ." If the creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2008-09-22Newest 2008-09-22
Rulings (3)
wotc15 Apr 2013
If a permanent has multiple instances of cumulative upkeep, each triggers separately. However, the age counters are not connected to any particular ability; each cumulative upkeep ability will count the total number of age counters on the permanent at the time that ability resolves.
wotc1 Oct 2008
If a creature returned to the battlefield with Dreams of the Dead would leave the battlefield for any reason, it’s exiled instead — unless the spell or ability that’s causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If it later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Oblivion Ring or Flickerwisp might, for example), the creature card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence.
wotc4 Oct 2004
This is a replacement effect.