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If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will resolve and do nothing.
MTG · Card
◇ Catalog #90
Undead Leotau
ala·#90·common·nonfoil
Illus. Carl Critchlow
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Oct '08
17 yr ago
Value
$0.05+$0 (+0.0%)
30 days high $0.06 · low $0.05
Volatility · moderate
EUR€0.03USD$0.05TIX0.04 tix
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Played in EDH
EDHrec rank #30,905 · Fringe play
Variants
Gameplay
Creature — Zombie Cat
{R}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
3/4
Legalities
tlrnot legal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennylegal
PreDH
Rulings · 5
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If a creature returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead — unless the spell or ability that's causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If it later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Oblivion Ring or Flickerwisp might, for example), the creature card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effect will no longer apply to it.
wotc
At the beginning of the end step, a creature returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Stifle or Voidslime that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the creature will stay on the battlefield and the delayed trigger won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the creature when it eventually leaves the battlefield.
Context
Last observed at $0.05, stable around $0.05 thirty days ago. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $0.06 across 34 observations. Headline volatility reads moderate. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
Last observed on Scryfall 17 hours ago at $0.05.
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ALA — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
This card belongs to *Shards of Alara* (released October 2008).
Card #90 in Shards of Alara.
Rarity tier: common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume.
Card type: Creature — Zombie Cat. Color identity: black/red. Mana cost: {5}{B} (6 converted). Keyword abilities: Unearth.
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.
EDHrec ranks this card #30,905 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Carl Critchlow. Rarix tracks 922 other cards credited to this artist across the catalog — browse the full gallery to see the body of work.
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