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Dreams of the Dead

{3}{U}

Enchantment

ICEIce Age#66uncommon
Border
black
Frame
1993
Pull rate
~1 in 13–40
Illustrator
Heather Hudson
Found in
Ice Age Starter Deck · Ice Age Booster Pack
Printings2CombosIn 1
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernLegal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
{1}{U}: Return target white or black creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains "Cumulative upkeep {2}." If the creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Plays as: Reanimation

Market · per finishspark updated 2h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+3.4%
$0.30
$0.10 low$0.09 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.30· across 2 printings

Rulings

3 · latest Apr 15, 2013 · one tap opens all
  • WotCApr 15, 2013

    If a permanent has multiple instances of cumulative upkeep, each triggers separately. However, the age counters are not connected to any particular ability; each cumulative upkeep ability will count the total number of age counters on the permanent at the time that ability resolves.

  • WotCOct 1, 2008

    If a creature returned to the battlefield with Dreams of the Dead would leave the battlefield for any reason, it’s exiled instead — unless the spell or ability that’s causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If it later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Oblivion Ring or Flickerwisp might, for example), the creature card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    This is a replacement effect.