One of the most convoluted cards ever printed, forms a broken combo with Worldgorger Dragon. It remains a decent reanimator card, especially since it's a cheap card...
Mr_Hendry
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(5 votes)
I really like the type-line name of "Enchant Dead Creature."
FragNutMK1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
A lot of the old cards had some really cool artwork, this is one of the key examples.
Silverware
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Very effective reanimation with not much of a draw back. Combos well with putrid imp to get your big creatures to the graveyard fast.
tavaritz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
@Guest57443454: There is nothing broken with this and Worldgorger Dragon.
When Worldgorger Dragon is in any graveyard and you cast this targetting it, Worldgorger Dragon comes to play with this attached to it as an enchantment. The comes into play ability of Worldgorger Dragon triggers and when it resolves all other permanents you control are exiled. This includes the Animate Dead that is enchanting the Worldgorger Dragon. When that happens Animate Dead's triggered ability goes into stack and when it resolves the Worldgorger Dragon is put into its owners graveyard. This triggers Worldgorger Dragon's second ability and when it resolves all your permanents that the Worldgorger Dragon exiled are returned to the battlefield. Now as a state based effect the Animate Dead finds that it is not enchanting anything and goes to your graveyard. End result is that you hope your other permanents has nifty comes into play or removed from the play abilities.
Kael_Hate
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@tavaritz Looks like you forget that when Animate Dead returns it can choose Worldgorger to bring back and repeat the cycle. One of the reasons Worldgorger Dragon is on the Ban lists for Legacy and Commander.
endersblade
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Tavaritz, you just wasted a whole lot of typing to prove how ignorant you are of how Magic works.
When Animate dead comes back from being exiled, it's returned to its original state. Same as playing it. Which means you can RE target the Worldgorger Dragon again, ad finitum. If this wasn't true, they never would've banned the Dragon from EDH in the first place. Granted, it's only banned in Legacy now, but for the same reason.
SuperHeroR
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Even after all these years, the wordings still don't exactly match the intent of Animate Dead. Granted, it's alot closer (but wordier), and people sort of understand the function of the card regardless. Also to note: this card responsible for a handful of cards banned in Legacy.
Kurraga
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm just going to assume the Worldgorger Dragon does work because it was an actual deck at one point and I can't imagine that leages of top-level DCI judges would know less about rules than random comments here.
Anyway, still a good reanimation option destipe it complex wording.
Anzu-chan
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I've played with it, and oh god it's broken. A drawback that means nothing compare to the power you can get with this.
If the drawback is signifiant for you, just target Avacyn, Angel of Hope and have fun. :D
DarthParallax
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card in Alpha is one of the most MAGIC-History Defining cards of all time:
It along with Regrowth first gave us the subtle suggestions to use the Graveyard as a RESOURCE not a Discard Pile. That effects so many things it's insane, and MOST Magic decks nowadays are either Built Around using the Graveyard or Life as a Resource, or IN RESPONSE to decks that do that.
One of the few Alpha cards where the Oracle text is wordier than the original.
Hepatizon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I truly miss this style of artwork. Some of my favorites were things like The Rack (Revised), Dark Banishing (Ice Age), or Helm of Chatzuk. Seems like folks got scared of brushstrokes and fell in love with colored lights. Grr! Get off my lawn!
...oh yes, the card itself. Ridiculously powerful, though admittedly less so before people had means of putting stuff in their graveyard intentionally.
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When Worldgorger Dragon is in any graveyard and you cast this targetting it, Worldgorger Dragon comes to play with this attached to it as an enchantment. The comes into play ability of Worldgorger Dragon triggers and when it resolves all other permanents you control are exiled. This includes the Animate Dead that is enchanting the Worldgorger Dragon. When that happens Animate Dead's triggered ability goes into stack and when it resolves the Worldgorger Dragon is put into its owners graveyard. This triggers Worldgorger Dragon's second ability and when it resolves all your permanents that the Worldgorger Dragon exiled are returned to the battlefield. Now as a state based effect the Animate Dead finds that it is not enchanting anything and goes to your graveyard. End result is that you hope your other permanents has nifty comes into play or removed from the play abilities.
Looks like you forget that when Animate Dead returns it can choose Worldgorger to bring back and repeat the cycle. One of the reasons Worldgorger Dragon is on the Ban lists for Legacy and Commander.
When Animate dead comes back from being exiled, it's returned to its original state. Same as playing it. Which means you can RE target the Worldgorger Dragon again, ad finitum. If this wasn't true, they never would've banned the Dragon from EDH in the first place. Granted, it's only banned in Legacy now, but for the same reason.
Anyway, still a good reanimation option destipe it complex wording.
If the drawback is signifiant for you, just target Avacyn, Angel of Hope and have fun. :D
It along with Regrowth first gave us the subtle suggestions to use the Graveyard as a RESOURCE not a Discard Pile. That effects so many things it's insane, and MOST Magic decks nowadays are either Built Around using the Graveyard or Life as a Resource, or IN RESPONSE to decks that do that.
Necropotence and Animate Dead together come very close to straight up Defining what MAGIC is for many people. o.o Those two....and...Lightning Bolt, Serra Angel and Counterspell. Yeah. Pretty much That Is Magic.
...oh yes, the card itself. Ridiculously powerful, though admittedly less so before people had means of putting stuff in their graveyard intentionally.