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The Dead Shall Serve

Scheme

OARCArchenemy Schemes#7★common
Oversized

"Tell your old master I said hello."

Finishes
Nonfoil
Border
black
Frame
2003
Illustrator
Jesper Ejsing
Printings1
CommanderNot legalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyNot legal
VintageNot legal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderNot legal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
When you set this scheme in motion, for each opponent, put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Each of those creatures attacks its owner each combat if able.
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Rulings

5 · latest Jun 15, 2010
  • WotCJun 15, 2010

    Each of the creatures you put onto the battlefield this way must attack its owner, not a planeswalker that player controls.

  • WotCJun 15, 2010

    For each opponent, you may choose not to target any creature cards in that player’s graveyard.

  • WotCJun 15, 2010

    If one of these creatures can’t attack its owner during any given turn (due to a spell or ability such as Chronomantic Escape, or because a player on the opposing team has gained control of it, for example), it may attack another player, attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, or not attack at all. If there’s a cost associated with having that creature attack its owner, you aren’t forced to pay that cost, so it may attack another player, attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, or not attack at all.

  • WotCJun 15, 2010

    If there are multiple combat phases in a turn, each of these creatures must attack its owner in each of them that it’s able to.

  • WotCJun 15, 2010

    If, during your declare attackers step, one of these creatures is tapped or is affected by a spell or ability that says it can’t attack, then it doesn’t attack. If there’s a cost associated with having that creature attack, you aren’t forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to attack in that case either.