Animate Graveyard

Animate Copy Logic

You've said before that copying the creature Animate Library is attached to gives you a non-creature empty library. Presumably, the same is true if you target the creature Animate Graveyard is attached to (giving you a non-creature empty graveyard). So, does that mean if I use It Came From Planet Glurg to copy an animated library and an animated graveyard, I can get a non-creature empty library-graveyard?

No.

Animate Graveyard Animate Library Creatures It Came from Planet Glurg Non-creatures The Graveyard The Library

Animate Graveyard Effect

Hi Mark! I have D00-DL in my graveyard and I play Animate Graveyard. Do I get a 4/4 token? Thanks!

No. Animate Graveyard does not trigger “enter the battlefield” effects as it’s already on the battlefield before it gets them.

Animate Graveyard Enter The Battlefield The Graveyard Tokens

Animate Graveyard Mechanics

If I play Animate Graveyard with a Juggletron in my graveyard, will the resulting creature get a buff from each art sticker on the cards in my graveyard?

Just on Juggletron.

Animate Graveyard Art Creatures Juggletron Mechanics Stickers The Graveyard

Creature Copy Mechanics

If I Saw in Half a creature that is only a creature due to a sticker or aura - animate graveyard, the real life object made into a token that has a power/toughness sticker, or any number of legal magic cards I can’t think of right now - do those token copies continue being creatures once they’ve entered the battlefield, since the sticker or aura is no longer applying to them?

When you copy a creature, you get only the base qualities of the card (aka what’s printed on it), so you would get two copies of the card, but neither would be creatures, and thus half the size doesn’t mean anything.

Animate Graveyard Auras Card Printing Creatures Mechanics Saw in Half Stickers The Graveyard Tokens

Animated Graveyard Scenario

Follow-up to the previous Mirri + Animate Graveyard question: is my animated graveyard a Cat Warrior if Mirri is in it and I control R&D's Secret Lair?

Yep.

Animate Graveyard Cat Mirri R&D's Secret Lair Secret Lairs The Graveyard Warrior

Animate Graveyard Clarification

if I cast Animate Graveyard and have Mirri, Cat Warrior (from Exodus) in the graveyard, does my graveyard count as a Cat Warrior? Or does the fact that errata has put her types on the type line in later versions mean she no longer "has" that rules text?

Yeah, that stuff’s on the type line.

Animate Graveyard Cat Errata Exodus Mirri, Cat Warrior Rules The Graveyard Warrior

Graveyard Animation Name

What is the name of the graveyard animated via Animate Graveyard

I think just “Graveyard”.

Animate Graveyard The Graveyard

Animate Graveyard Rule

Hi Mark, quick Un-ruling question: If I cast Animate Graveyard while I have a bunch of host cards and augment cards in it, would the resulting graveyard creature have a bunch of triggered abilities with no effects, or could I assign augment triggers to host effects?I love how Infinity looks, and can't wait to play with the cards!

You can’t augment hosts in your graveyard.

Animate Graveyard Creatures Rules The Graveyard Triggered Abilities Triggered Abilities

Phased Out Graveyard

I have a rules question that came up in a group chat when we saw Animate Graveyard... What happens if my animated graveyard gets phased out and then one of my creatures dies?

Phasing affects how things interact with permanents on the battlefield. It has no impact with how things interact with the graveyard. In other words, a phased out graveyard functions just like a normal graveyard as being phased out doesn’t mean anything to it.

Animate Graveyard Creatures Permanents Phasing Rules The Graveyard

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