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Living Death

{3}{B}{B}

Sorcery

TMPTempest#142rare
Finishes
Nonfoil
Border
black
Frame
1997
Pull rate
~1 in 37–110
Illustrator
Charles Gillespie
Found in
Tempest Starter Deck · Tempest Booster Pack
Printings17Combos50EDHREC rank#461
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal

Arena

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

Other

PremodernLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Plays as:
Reanimation
Market · per finishspark updated 49m ago · prices as of 2026-08-30
Nonfoil-6.3%
$12.98
$11.16 low$3.91 gapTCGplayer
Cheapest playable copy$2.87· across 17 printings· view the cheapest printing ›

Rulings

2 · latest Mar 16, 2018
  • WotCMar 16, 2018

    As Living Death resolves, all players exile their creature cards from graveyards at the same time. Then all players sacrifice all creatures they control at the same time. Then all players put all creatures they exiled onto the battlefield at the same time.

  • WotCMar 16, 2018

    Only cards exiled by Living Death's first instruction are put onto the battlefield. If a replacement effect (such as that of Leyline of the Void) causes any of the sacrificed creatures to be exiled instead of put into a graveyard, those cards aren't returned to the battlefield.

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