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Cemetery Recruitment
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
FoundationsFDN · #517
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.17 € · 0.27 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If it's a Zombie card, draw a card.
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Kieran Yanner
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-11-15
Flavour text
To a necromancer as powerful as Liliana Vess, a graveyard is as good as a garrison of soldiers awaiting her command.
Rulings
If the target creature card is an illegal target as Cemetery Recruitment tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't draw a card even if the target creature card was a Zombie card.
