Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine — Roots That Return
Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine is a compact engine of recursion. The card name signals its role exactly: when Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine enters the battlefield you exile every creature card from your graveyard and then begin refilling that exile zone by milling three a turn. That sequence changes how you value your graveyard and library. It rewards tight sequencing and deck construction that expects to reanimate specific creatures rather than rely on a random return.
Played in midrange or combo shells, Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine gives you granular access to threats without recurring tutors. The second ability lets you spend mana to cast a chosen creature from the pile of cards Yggdrasil has exiled and push it through with haste until end of turn. In practice this reads as a steady threat generator that forces opponents to account for multiple surprise returns. If you build with known targets and mana pathways the artifact becomes a repeatable late game answer to attrition. Pick it up for a mythic borderless foil that reads clean at the table and performs predictably in play.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {3}
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Card Type – Legendary Artifact
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Subtypes –
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – When Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine enters the battlefield, exile all creature cards from your graveyard. {T}: Exile the top three cards of your library. {4}, {T}: Put a creature card exiled with Yggdrasil onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
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Power / Toughness – N A
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Rarity – Mythic
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Set – Universes Beyond Assassin's Creed
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Style – Borderless Light Play Foil
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Language – English
