Purgatory
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SetMIR
Collector #275
Released1996-10-08
Rarityrare
ArtistMike Dringenberg
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Purgatory

RareReserved listColour IDMV 4
Enchantment
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, exile that card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay and 2 life. If you do, return a card exiled with this enchantment to the battlefield.
Card capabilities
Enchantment
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (4)
wotc1 Aug 2008
If this card changes controllers between putting the upkeep triggered ability on the stack and resolving it, the creature is put onto the battlefield under the control of the player who controlled this card when the ability was put on the stack.
wotc1 Apr 2008
This has been restored to a triggered ability that triggers when a nontoken creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, rather than a replacement effect. The creature does go to the graveyard, and will trigger any other abilities that look for this event.
wotc4 Oct 2004
If an opponent takes control of this card and pays for the upkeep ability, the creatures will enter under their control even if you exiled them.
wotc4 Oct 2004
If destroyed at the same time some creatures are destroyed, the destroyed creatures are exiled and stay exiled.