Undying creatures hit the graveyard before they come back.

When a creature with undying dies, the creature goes to the graveyard, and the undying trigger brings them back into play when the ability resolves. This means that because creatures go to the graveyard, both leaves-the-battlefield abilities and enters-the-battlefield abilities will trigger. For example, if you cast on a before it dies, two abilities trigger […]

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Exiling a creature card with Makeshift Mauler or Stitched Drake is an additional cost.

One mechanical theme for some of the blue creatures in Innistrad is that you need to exile one or more creature cards from your graveyard as an additional cost. Examples of cards with this ability are , and . As this is an additional cost, it is paid when you pay all costs when casting […]

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