MTG Copilot
← Back to search
Live or Die

Live or Die

Instant

uncommon

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Destroy target creature.

$0.27 ✦ $0.31View on Scryfall →

Semantic Tags

Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.

Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.

Persistvector

A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.79, “Persist.”

Reanimatormechanical

Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.

Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.

Recursionvector

Returns cards from graveyard to hand or library (not battlefield — that is reanimation).

Removalmechanical

Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.

Undyingvector

A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.93, “Undying.”

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardlegal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemylegal

Price history

Loading price history…

Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Duskmourn: House of Horror#107uncommon···

Related Rules

702.79

Persist

702.79a

Persist is a triggered ability. “Persist” means “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a -1/-1 counter on it.”

702.93

Undying

702.93a

Undying is a triggered ability. “Undying” means “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a +1/+1 counter on it.”

704.8

If a state-based action results in a permanent leaving the battlefield at the same time other state-based actions were performed, that permanent’s last known information is derived from the game state before any of those state-based actions were performed.