Life // Death
Life ({G}, Sorcery): All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.
Death ({1}{B}, Sorcery): Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to its mana value.
Life // Death is a black-green card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Apocalypse printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€0.66) · TCGplayer ($1.24) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.66 and €2.50 in that time.
How often Life // Death is played
Life // Death is maindecked in 6 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (5%), averaging 2.7 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 36 decks that can cast black-green cards, 6 of them play it (17%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Life // Death
- Reanimator: In about four of five lists since September: Death returns a creature card from your own graveyard to the battlefield for two mana, and you lose life equal to its mana value, just as with Reanimate. It costs one more mana than Reanimate and only reaches your own graveyard, so it is simply one more reanimation spell. The Life half is almost never cast.
Tournament decks with Life // Death
- Reanimator: 2nd Place at Octobeerians Tournament '26 (2× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 5th Place at Technoliga Valenciana (2× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 1st Place at 2026 Nantuko League (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black Reanimator: 3rd Place at Open Coquimbo Agosto 2026 (4× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (2× mainboard)
- 5 Colors: 3rd Place at Final Liga Madrileña (2× mainboard)
