Resurrection

The Darkness element ability. Revive a monster from your graveyard onto the target cell. Cost limit applies.

How it Works

When you trigger a Resurrection ability arrow, you choose a monster from your graveyard whose cost is equal to or less than the cost of your active card. That monster is placed on the target cell and immediately activates — it enters the full activation sequence (abilities, conflicts, flips) as if it had just been played onto the board.

Note: revived monsters activate, they do not reactivate. Reactivation applies to cards already present on the board. A card arriving from the graveyard is entering the board fresh — this distinction matters for certain rule interactions. See Activation & Reactivation.

Rules

• Choose a monster from your graveyard with a cost ≤ cost of your active card. Place it on the target cell. It immediately activates.
• If you use multiple Resurrection arrows during the same activation, the combined cost of all revived cards cannot exceed the cost of your active card. For example, with an active card of cost 6, you could revive a cost-4 and a cost-2 monster (total 6), but not a cost-3 and cost-4 (total 7).
• Revived monsters activate from the target cell — they trigger abilities, conflicts, and flips from their new position.
• Revived monsters placed in the out zone follow out zone activation rules — they can use abilities but cannot initiate conflicts or flip cards.
• Resurrection only targets your own graveyard. You cannot revive opponent cards.
• Cards that were removed from the game (e.g., by Shockwave off the out zone edge) are not in the graveyard and cannot be resurrected.

Interactions

Cost check

The cost limit is based on the cost of the active Darkness card — not its ATK. A high-cost Darkness card with low ATK can still resurrect expensive monsters. The cost printed on the card is the value used.

Chain depth

Because the revived monster activates immediately, Resurrection is a primary driver of deep chains. A revived card can itself use abilities that trigger further activations. See Chaining.