Reincarnation
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This printing
SetME3
Collector #130
Released2009-09-07
Rarityuncommon
ArtistEdward P. Beard, Jr.
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Reincarnation

UncommonColour IDMV 3
Instant
Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, return a creature card from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield under the control of that creature's owner.
Card capabilities
Instant
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 1994-06-01Newest 2013-11-01Cheapest priced $1.80 in C13
Rulings (3)
wotc1 Oct 2009
The creature card that will be returned to the battlefield isn't chosen until the delayed triggered ability resolves. The player who chooses is the player who controlled Reincarnation. The player under whose control the chosen creature card enters is the player who owned the targeted creature (in other words, the player into whose graveyard it went), not necessarily the controller of that creature.
wotc1 Oct 2009
The creature that's returned to the battlefield may be the same one that was put into the graveyard (assuming it's still in the graveyard when the delayed triggered ability resolves). If so, it returns to the battlefield as a brand-new creature.
wotc1 Oct 2009
All Reincarnation does when it resolves is set up a delayed triggered ability. If the targeted creature isn't put into a graveyard this turn, that ability never triggers. If the targeted creature is put into a graveyard this turn, that ability triggers and resolves like any other triggered ability.