Animate Spell
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021CMB2 · #16
- Card type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.24 € · 0.24 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Flash Enchant instant or sorcery spell on the stack When Animate Spell becomes attached to an instant or sorcery, put that card onto the battlefield under its owner's control. It's a creature in addition to its other types with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. When Animate Spell leaves the battlefield, enchanted card's owner sacrifices it unless they cast it.
Format legality
Legality is not available in the catalogue.
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
- Alli Steele
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-08-20
Rulings
Animate Spell loses “enchant instant or sorcery spell on the stack” and gains “enchant permanent put onto the battlefield with Animate Spell” before becoming attached to that creature. It doesn’t say that on the card, but we’ll figure it out later.
If the creature leaves the battlefield before or at the same time as Animate Spell, it can’t be cast.
Use the mana value of the spell to determine the power and toughness of the creature it becomes. For a spell with in its mana cost, use the value chosen for X to determine its mana value.
While resolving Animate Spell’s last ability, the spell is cast from the battlefield. As it moves to the stack, it stops being a creature. Its controller must pay its costs if they wish to cast it.
