

If you activate a card's unearth ability but if that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will resolve and do nothing.You may activate the unearth ability of a card in your graveyard no matter how it wound up in your graveyard.If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. “Unearth ” means “: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. 702.84a Unearth is an activated ability that functions while the card with unearth is in a graveyard.Creatures with Unearth use the card itself, do not necessarily have to attack, and are exiled at end of turn or if they leave the battlefield.įrom the Comprehensive Rules (June 16, 2023- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth) The Encore mechanic introduced in Commander Legends is similar to Unearth, with subtle differences. In The Brothers' War, it also appeared on noncreatures (artifacts) and was associated with the reactivation of buried war machines, rather than the reanimation of corpses. While one other artifact creature ( Etherium Abomination) used Unearth in Alara Reborn as a cross-Shard piece, Warhammer used it extensively with artifacts as the faction keyword of the Necron. After Shards of Alara it also appeared in the other sets of the Alara block, in Modern Horizons, Warhammer 40K and in The Brothers' War.

Unearth was designed by Brian Tinsman, Devin Low and Erik Lauer.

However, flashback only appears on instants and sorceries, and Unearth is strictly limited to permanent cards. It functions similarly to flashback, providing a one-time effect that can be cast from the graveyard. Unearth returns a permanent to the battlefield and gives it haste, at the expense of the permanent being exiled at the end of turn.
