Rakdos Joins Up fits cleanly into sacrifice and reanimator shells while keeping the flavor of the Outlaws of Thunder Junction. When Rakdos Joins Up enters the battlefield you get a reliable recursion effect that returns a creature directly from your graveyard with two additional +1/+1 counters on it. That makes it useful both for value engines that want bodies back and for decks that plan to abuse enter the battlefield or dies triggers.

Beyond the immediate reanimation, the secondary clause keeps you rewarded for letting legendary creatures fall in combat. Whenever a legendary creature you control dies, Rakdos Joins Up converts that loss into direct damage equal to the creature's power to a target opponent. The card reads like a compact plan: resurrect a threat then threaten the opponent again when legends fall, which meshes well with midrange and Rakdos tribal builds in the set.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost: {3}{B}{R}
• Card Type: Legendary Enchantment
• Subtypes: None
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed): When Rakdos Joins Up enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with two additional +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever a legendary creature you control dies, Rakdos Joins Up deals damage equal to that creature's power to target opponent.
• Power / Toughness: Not applicable
• Loyalty: Not applicable