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Reincarnation
Instant
uncommon
Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, return a creature card from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield under the control of that creature's owner.
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Benefits from creatures or permanents dying — death triggers, blood artist effects.
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.
Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.
Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.
Returns cards from graveyard to hand or library (not battlefield — that is reanimation).
A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.93, “Undying.”
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Printings (3)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commander 2013#166 | uncommon | · | · | · |
| Masters Edition III#130 | uncommon | · | · | · |
| Legends#201 | uncommon | · | · | · |
Related Rules
Undying
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.”
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.
Rulings
All Reincarnation does when it resolves is set up a delayed triggered ability. If the targeted creature isn't put into a graveyard this turn, that ability never triggers. If the targeted creature is put into a graveyard this turn, that ability triggers and resolves like any other triggered ability.
The creature card that will be returned to the battlefield isn't chosen until the delayed triggered ability resolves. The player who chooses is the player who controlled Reincarnation. The player under whose control the chosen creature card enters is the player who owned the targeted creature (in other words, the player into whose graveyard it went), not necessarily the controller of that creature.
The creature that's returned to the battlefield may be the same one that was put into the graveyard (assuming it's still in the graveyard when the delayed triggered ability resolves). If so, it returns to the battlefield as a brand-new creature.