Life // Death
Sorcery // Sorcery
Printings & Editions
Premodern-legal editions of Life // Death — old-border printings plus any period-appropriate foil promos (Arena/Judge, through Scourge). Hover to preview an edition on the card; click to select it.
Old-border editions + pre-Scourge promo foils (Arena/Judge). Modern-frame reprints (8th Edition onward) exist but are not period-appropriate printings.
Critical Rulings
"Lands that become creatures retain any other supertypes, card types, subtypes, and abilities they have."
— 2022-12-08
"If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery."
— 2022-12-08
"Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice."
— 2022-12-08
"A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery."
— 2022-12-08
"Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both."
— 2022-12-08
"To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card."
— 2022-12-08
"Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack."
— 2022-12-08
"A noncreature permanent that becomes a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature. Notably, if you turn a land into a creature on the turn it entered the battlefield, you won't be able to tap it for mana."
— 2022-12-08
"If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery."
— 2022-12-08
Price History
91d · USDTracks this card’s preferred printing: the old-border edition shown by default (block-expansion printings first, e.g. Urza’s, Tempest, Mirage). It doesn’t re-price when you select a different edition above. Per-edition history is planned.
Decks playing Life // Death (244)
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- Five Color ReanimatorDavidedoneda#1Lega Milano 3/10 @ Milano (Italy)2026-06-12×3
- Five Color ReanimatorManuel Lago#1Casual Event @ Maginzer (Vigo, Spain)2026-06-06×1
- Five Color ReanimatorTomáš Popovi?#1Cloudpost PM 5/26 @ Ihrysko (Bratislava, Slovakia)2026-05-23×1
- Five Color ReanimatorTomáš Popovič#1Cloudpost @ Ihrysko (Bratislava, Slovakia)2026-05-20×1
- Five Color ReanimatorNicolò Barovier#1Spring Tournament – Treviso @ Treviso (Italy)2026-05-09×2
- Mono Black ReanimatorAlexander Javed#1$1k - NRG Series @ Indianapolis (IN)2026-05-09×2
- Five Color ReanimatorMartin Oviedo#1FNM Bazaar of Baghdad (Argentina)2026-04-24×1
- Five Color ReanimatorNicola Cordeschi#1Lega Trentino - 4a tappa 2026 @ Rovereto (Italy)2026-04-21×1
- Five Color ReanimatorFilippo Biffi#1FNM Lega PM Mana & Malto @ Comix cafè (Grosseto, Italy)2026-03-13×1
- Five Color ReanimatorDominik Münch#1FSW Series @ Würzburg (Germany)2026-02-05×4
