“Every grave cradles a recruit.”
Cemetery Reaper
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Creature — Zombie
Mana Cost: {1}{B}{B}
Oracle Rules Text: Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Flavor Text: Every grave cradles a recruit.
Set: Midnight Hunt Commander (#108), Rarity: Rare, Artist: Dave Allsop
Creature
Black
Rare
Anthem
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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
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Official Rulings (3)
2009-10-01
Cemetery Reaper grants +1/+1 to all other Zombie creatures you control, not just the ones its ability puts onto the battlefield.
2009-10-01
A "creature card" is any card with the type creature, even if it has other types such as artifact, enchantment, or land. Older cards of type summon are also creature cards.
2009-10-01
The creature card in a graveyard is exiled as part of the activated ability's effect, not as a cost. If that card has left the graveyard by the time the ability would resolve, the ability doesn't resolve and you don't get a Zombie token.
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