Variant

ETB reanimator

Use a battlefield discard-cost outlet to help stock the graveyard, return creatures to the battlefield, and gain value from creature ETB effects.

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Setup
- Discard as a battlefield activation cost
A suitable discarded creature can become a graveyard reanimation target
Reanimation
- Return creatures from graveyard to battlefield
A returned creature may provide the described etb resource effect
Etb value
- Creature self-ETB card or creature-token value

What needs to be true

A discarded card helps only if it is a suitable creature card; the outlet may have other costs and use limits, and reanimation does not guarantee the ETB card is itself the returned creature.