Format jargon

Reanimation

The act of returning a creature from the graveyard directly to the battlefield, typically for less mana than its casting cost.

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Adjacent terms

Graveyard
The game zone where discarded, destroyed, sacrificed, and countered cards go. The graveyard is actively used by many Premodern archetypes.
Reanimator
A Premodern combo archetype that puts large creatures directly into the graveyard and returns them to play with Reanimate, Animate Dead, or Exhume.

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