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Grimoire of the Dead

4 · Legendary Artifact

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

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NameManaTypeText
Rotten Reunion BInstant Exile up to one target card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.) Flashback {1}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Obscura Ascendancy WUBEnchantment Whenever you cast a spell, if its mana value is equal to 1 plus the number of soul counters on Obscura Ascendancy, put a soul counter on Obscura Ascendancy, then create a 2/2 white Spirit creature token with flying. As long as there are five or more soul counters on Obscura Ascendancy, Spirits you control get +3/+3.
Cryptwailing 3BEnchantment {1}, Exile two creature cards from your graveyard: Target player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Vigor Mortis 2BBSorcery Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If {G} was spent to cast this spell, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
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Nissa of Shadowed Boughs 2BGLegendary Planeswalker — Nissa Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a loyalty counter on Nissa of Shadowed Boughs. [+1]: Untap target land you control. You may have it become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste and menace until end of turn. It's still a land. [−5]: You may put a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control onto the battlefield from your hand or graveyard with two +1/+1 counters on it. Loyalty 4
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Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 1UBLegendary Creature — Vampire Detective Flying, vigilance Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko, Obsessive Theorist. At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.) 1/3
Scrap Mastery 3RRSorcery Each player exiles all artifact cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all artifacts they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
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