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Pyrrhic Revival

Magic: The GatheringEventide#93

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Mana cost

EventideEVE · #93
Card type
Sorcery
Rarity
Rare
Indicative price
0.45 € · ★ 2.85 € · 0.84 $ · ★ 4.84 $
Mana value
6
Colour
White Black

Card text

Each player returns each creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.

Format legality

  • CommanderLegal
  • DuelLegal
  • LegacyLegal
  • ModernLegal
  • OathbreakerLegal
  • PennyLegal
  • PredhLegal
  • VintageLegal

Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).

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Printing information

Illustrator
Richard Kane Ferguson
Card language
English
Release date
2008-07-25

Flavour text

They found themselves alive again, still bearing their mortal wounds.

Rulings

Pyrrhic Revival can cause creatures to be put onto the battlefield that have 0 toughness due to the -1/-1 counter from this effect. Those creatures are put right back into their owners' graveyards as a state-based action. No spells or abilities that would remove counters or otherwise affect those creatures can be cast or activated before that happens. Still, the creatures did momentarily pop onto the battlefield, so any relevant triggered abilities (including their own "enters" or leaves-the-battlefield abilities) will trigger. They'll be put on the stack after state-based actions are checked.

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