Use this with Ostracize and you get killer creature they were saving for you or you can use any specter and hope that you get a monster discarded

  -- By Anonymous from LA, CA on July 28, 2008

Incredible, check this out. Black deck, 4 of these, 4 Exhume, any other animate cards you like, and 4 Buried Alives. you can also add some Entombs. then you put the biggest fattest meanest creatures in your deck that usually wouldnt be considered (like a Devouring Strossus) and with the helf of some dark rituals, you will have any creature, no matter what color, in play by your third turn. one mana, use dark ritual to use buried alive and get any 3 creatures from you deck to the graveyard on your first turn. then on your second turn, use animate dead (or exhume) to pick a creature from your graveyard and put it into play. i usually like to start with a Reya Dawnbringer. and then youo crush your opponent. i even stick in a few demonic tutors incase something is countered on the second turn. i think many of these cards are underestimated, and what i just told you proves how powerful these can be. 5 stars. *****

  -- By The Animator from Military Base, GER (american) on December 07, 2006

Animate Dead is the best card ever i have 17 and i play with 4 in each black deck i make .... no im kidddin i dislike the card and i have zero....lol... i dislike it

  -- By O.P.T.I.K.H.O.G. from the land where obelisks roam the land, laying cheese eggs in our buildings on December 15, 2004

Great card. Use it with terror (destroy target non black non artifact creature) or a dark banishing (destroy target non black) to kill opponents best creature and use this to resurrect it. The only prblem is -1 power but a 7/7 creature becomeing a 6/7 for only 4 mana. Thats good

  -- By Sam from Philadelphia, PA on November 24, 2002

What a great card! You can fish out say your avatar of woe you had to discard and get a 5/5 tap kill any creature it cant be regenerated can't be blocked except by black and artifact creatures.

  -- By Mary Mika from Maple Plain, MN USA on June 27, 2001