Cemetery Reaper is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.,
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
How it works : Cemetery Reaper
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Cemetery Reaper grants +1/+1 to all other Zombie creatures you control, not just the ones its ability puts onto the battlefield.
Card named in this ruling
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
Card named in this ruling
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Ghoulcaller Gisa + Thornbite Staff + Phyrexian Altar + Cemetery Reaper
- 1Activate Ghoulcaller Gisa's ability to sacrifice a creature and create at least 1 zombie.
- 2Thornbite Staff allows Ghoulcaller Gisa to untap with her ability.
- 3Sacrifice the zombie to Ghoulcaller Gisa again to create 3 zombies.
- 4Thornbite Staff untaps Ghoulcaller Gisa again.
- 5Sacrifice a zombie to Phyrexian Altar to add to your mana pool.
- 6Activate Ghoulcaller Gisa's ability to sacrifice a zombie and create 3 zombies.
- 7Thornbite Staff untaps Ghoulcaller Gisa again.
- 8Repeat.
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