Life // Death (AA2 #17)
Life // Death is a uncommon printing from Arena Anthology 2 (AA2 #17), a Sorcery // Sorcery. Illustrated by Anthony S. Waters & Scott Murphy.
Card text
Life
Sorcery
All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.
Death
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to its mana value.
Details
| Mana cost | {G} // {1}{B} |
|---|---|
| Type | Sorcery // Sorcery |
| Rarity | Uncommon |
| Set | Arena Anthology 2 (AA2) |
| Collector number | 17 |
| Artist | Anthony S. Waters & Scott Murphy |
| Released | 2025-08-19 |
Legality
| Standard | Not legal |
|---|---|
| Future Standard | Not legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Pioneer | Not legal |
| Modern | Not legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Pauper | Not legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Not legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Not legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Competitive Brawl | Legal |
| Alchemy | Not legal |
| Pauper Commander | Not legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Old School | Not legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| PrEDH | Legal |
| TLR | Legal |
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Rulings
- December 8, 2022 — Lands that become creatures retain any other supertypes, card types, subtypes, and abilities they have.
- December 8, 2022 — A noncreature permanent that becomes a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature. Notably, if you turn a land into a creature on the turn it entered the battlefield, you won't be able to tap it for mana.
- December 8, 2022 — To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
- December 8, 2022 — Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
- December 8, 2022 — Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
- December 8, 2022 — Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
- December 8, 2022 — A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
- December 8, 2022 — If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
- December 8, 2022 — If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.