Purgatory

Enchantment    (CMC:4)

Whenever a summon card is put into your graveyard from play, put that card face up under Purgatory. During your upkeep, you may pay and 2 life to put any card under Purgatory into play as though it were just played. If Purgatory leaves play, remove all cards under if from the game.

MI • ENMike Dringenberg

™ & © 1993—1996 Wizards of the Coast

Legal in: Mirage Block,Legacy,Vintage,Freeform,Prismatic,Tribal Wars Legacy,Singleton 100,Commander

Oracle Text (click to copy):

Purgatory {2}{W}{B} Enchantment Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, exile that card. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4} and 2 life. If you do, return a card exiled with Purgatory to the battlefield.

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10/4/2004
If an opponent takes control of this card and pays for the upkeep ability, the creatures will enter the battlefield under their control even if you exiled them.
10/4/2004
If destroyed at the same time some creatures are destroyed, the destroyed creatures are exiled and stay exiled.
4/1/2008
This has been restored to a triggered ability that triggers when a nontoken creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, rather than a replacement effect. The creature does go to the graveyard, and will trigger any other abilities that look for this event.
8/1/2008
If this card changes controllers between putting the upkeep triggered ability on the stack and resolving it, the creature is put onto the battlefield under the control of the player who controlled this card when the ability was put on the stack.

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