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Cemetery Reaper

Card Name

Cemetery Reaper

Mana Cost

1

Type

Creature – Zombie

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
2
, : Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Flavor Text

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(10/1/2009)
Cemetery Reaper grants +1/+1 to all other Zombie creatures you control, not just the ones its ability puts onto the battlefield.
(10/1/2009)
The creature card in a graveyard is exiled as part of the activated ability's effect, not as a cost. If that card has left the graveyard by the time the ability would resolve, the ability doesn't resolve and you don't get a Zombie token.
(10/1/2009)
A "creature card" is any card with the type creature, even if it has other types such as artifact, enchantment, or land. Older cards of type summon are also creature cards.