Mummify

Mummify
Keyword Ability
Type	Activated
Introduced	Unreleased mechanics
Last used	Unreleased mechanics
Reminder Text	Mummify [cost] ((Cost), Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie token that deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters. Mummify only as a sorcery.)

Mummify was a graveyard mechanic designed for Amonkhet. It was never released, eventually evolving into Embalm.

Description

R&D created this mechanic when designing top down for the Egyptian-themed set, Amonkhet.

Mummify went on creatures and was an activated ability usable only in the graveyard that allowed you to exile it to make a 2/2 black Zombie token with wither. It was ultimately not used because the Zombie tokens were feeling a bit too similar to what Shadows over Innistrad was doing with Zombies.^[1]

The idea of mummification remained and eventually became the technically more challenging but more diverse Embalm.

References

↑ Mark Rosewater (May 1, 2017). "Amonkhet Talking, Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.

Mechanics

Keyword Abilities

Evergreen	Deathtouch Defender Double strike Enchant Equip Equip [quality] Equip planeswalker First strike Flash Flying Haste Hexproof Hexproof from [quality] Indestructible Lifelink Menace Protection Reach Trample Trample over Planeswalkers Vigilance Ward

Other	Absorb Affinity Afflict Afterlife Aftermath Amplify Annihilator Ascend Assist Aura swap Awaken Backup Banding Bands with other [quality] Bargain Battle cry Bestow Blitz Bloodthirst Boast Bushido Buyback Cascade Casualty Champion Changeling Cipher Cleave Companion Compleated Conspire Convoke Craft Crew Cumulative upkeep Cycling [Type]cycling Dash Daybound Nightbound Decayed Delve Demonstrate Dethrone Devoid Devour Devour [type] Disguise Disturb Dredge Echo Embalm Emerge Encore Enlist Entwine Epic Escalate Escape Eternalize Evoke Evolve Exalted Exploit Extort Fabricate Fading Fear Flanking Flashback Forecast Foretell Fortify For Mirrodin! Freerunning Frenzy Fuse Graft Gravestorm Haunt Hidden agenda Double Agenda Hideaway Horsemanship Improvise Infect Ingest Intimidate Jump-start Kicker Multikicker Landwalk Level up Living Metal Living weapon Madness Melee Mentor Miracle Modular More Than Meets the Eye Morph Megamorph Mutate Myriad Ninjutsu Commander Ninjutsu Offering Outlast Overload Partner Choose a Background Doctor's Companion Friends forever Partner with [name] Persist Phasing Plot Poisonous Prototype Provoke Prowess Prowl Rampage Ravenous Read ahead Rebound Reconfigure Recover Reinforce Renown Replicate Retrace Riot Ripple Scavenge Shadow Shroud Skulk Solved Soulbond Soulshift Space sculptor Spectacle Splice Split second Spree Squad Storm Sunburst Surge Suspend Toxic Training Transfigure Transmute Tribute Umbra armor Undaunted Undying Unearth Unleash Vanishing Visit Wither

Keyword Actions

Evergreen	Activate Attach Cast Counter Create Double Destroy Discard Exchange Exile Fight Goad Mill Play Reveal Sacrifice Scry Search Shuffle Tap Untap

Other	Abandon Adapt Amass Assemble Bolster Clash Cloak Collect evidence Connive Convert Detain Discover Exert Explore Face a villainous choice Fateseal Incubate Initiative Investigate Learn Manifest Meld Monstrosity Open an attraction Planeswalk Populate Proliferate Regenerate The Ring Tempts You Roll to visit your attractions Saddle Set in motion Support Surveil Suspect Time Travel Transform Venture into the dungeon Venture into [Quality] Vote

Ability words

Other

Digital only	Backbone Boon Conjure Draft Double team Heist Incorporate Intensity Not the starting player Perpetually Seek Spellbook Specialize Unstoppable

Miscellaneous	Ante Batching Historic Modified Outlaw Party Biting Committing a crime Divvy Dice rolling Energy Flipping a coin Monarch Predefined token Radiation Rhystic

Acorn	Art menace Rampage Augment Ban Blurry Combine Coolness Crank‎ Denimwalk Family gathering Gear Up Gobble Gotcha Hide Install Just a second Knightlifelink Last strike Rangeling Reassemble Stare down Super haste Switch Triple strike Typelink Undeathtouch Uninstall Wrap

Playtest	Aggressive Bank Challenge Curse First strike Four-faced Interplanar Kinfall Landship Legacy Megalegendary Motivate Ransom Reflect Requirement Miracle Scrycast Spark Spellmorph Tasty Token card Underdog Upgrade

Unreleased	Double-tap Forbidden Glorify‎ Hieroglyphics‎ Link Mummify‎ Reckless Unique‎

Former	Bury Landhome Substance

See also	List of Acorn mechanics List of deprecated mechanics List of obsolete terminology List of unreleased mechanics Storm Scale

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