Zombify

Impact of 4 Mana Reanimation

I don't think most people are pushing for the return of Reanimate, but what was wrong with 4 mana reanimation? I don't remember Breath of Life or Zombify upsetting the apple cart too much in Standard. Even something like Late to Dinner seems fine for Standard.

We had a period where reanimation was mana value of four. It caused problems and limited our design of bigger creatures.

Breath of Life Creatures Late to Dinner Limited Mana Mana Value Reanimate Standard Zombify

White Reanimation Scope

Are Zombify effects tertiary in white?

Reanimation (mostly of small/cheap creatures) is available to white. I’m not sure I’d call it secondary or tertiary.

Creatures Secondary Tertiary White Zombify

Green Reanimation Query

Green is allowed to return land cards from the graveyard to the hand and it's allowed to find them in the library and put them onto the battlefield. Would it be in-color to put them directly from the graveyard onto the battlefield (i.e. Zombify instead of Regrowth)?

Reanimation is primary in black and secondary in white. I guess one could argue if anyone would have it tertiary it’s green but I don’t see the need for it.

Black Colors Green Lands Primary Regrowth Secondary Tertiary The Graveyard The Library White Your Hand Zombify

Card Return Language

I was asked this recently: "In MTG, can you "return" cards from your graveyard to your hand, which were never in your hand to begin with? Such as Archaeomancer returning something that you lost to a Tome Scour. Logically you shouldn't be able to, but i suspect that in this case mtg probably shirks logic and lets you do it anyway?". It never occured to me that the particular phrasing of Zombify and Archeomancer effects could confuse. Has Wizards considered rephrasing them?

You can “return” things that were never in your hand. And yes, that wording has come up as being confusing.

Archaeomancer Suspect The Graveyard Tome Scour Your Hand Zombify

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