“Sometimes the books hit back.”
Enchant
Animate Library
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Enchantment — Aura
Mana Cost: {4}{U}{U}
Oracle Rules Text: Enchant your library Enchanted library is an artifact creature on the battlefield with power and toughness each equal to the number of cards in it. It's still a library. If enchanted library would leave the battlefield, exile this Aura instead.
Flavor Text: Sometimes the books hit back.
Set: Unstable (#26), Rarity: Rare, Artist: Raymond Swanland
Enchantment
Blue
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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
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Official Rulings (4)
2018-01-19
While your library is a creature, it can become enchanted or equipped, it can be tapped and untapped, and it can attack and block like other creatures.
2018-01-19
If Animate Library leaves the battlefield, your library goes back to being a normal library.
2018-01-19
If your animated library becomes four libraries because of Split Screen, Animate Library stays attached to one of them of your choice. Only that one is a creature.
2018-01-19
Animate Library can't enchant your Contraption deck.
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