Animate Library
Unstable (UST) #26 · Rare · Enchantment — Aura
Mana cost: {4}{U}{U}
Enchant your library
Enchanted library is an artifact creature on the battlefield with power and toughness each equal to the number of cards in it. It's still a library.
If enchanted library would leave the battlefield, exile this Aura instead.
Sometimes the books hit back.
Illustrated by Raymond Swanland · Released December 8, 2017
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.42 USD · €0.31 EUR
- Foil: $1.09 USD · €0.85 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.05 USD (10.6%) to $0.42 USD; low $0.42 USD, high $0.47 USD.
Printings
- The List (Unfinity Foil Edition) #11 (ULST) · Rare · 2022 · $0.30 USD foil
- Unstable #26 (this printing) · Rare · 2017 · $0.42 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Not legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Not legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Not legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Not legal
- Duel: Not legal
Rulings
- 2018-01-19 · wotc — While your library is a creature, it can become enchanted or equipped, it can be tapped and untapped, and it can attack and block like other creatures.
- 2018-01-19 · wotc — If Animate Library leaves the battlefield, your library goes back to being a normal library.
- 2018-01-19 · wotc — If your animated library becomes four libraries because of Split Screen, Animate Library stays attached to one of them of your choice. Only that one is a creature.
- 2018-01-19 · wotc — Animate Library can't enchant your Contraption deck.