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If I use Culling the Weak to sacrifice 4 creatures for 16 black mana, then use 15 of that mana on Whispering Shade to make it stronger, can I then sacrifice them to get 5 mana for Living Death to bring all my creatures back with Whispering Shade being a 16/16?

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    No. Creatures only exist on the battlfield. When Whispering Shade is in the graveyard, it is a creature card. When Living Death returns the card to the battlefield it is a new object with no knowledge of its previous existance.
    – user1873
    Aug 13, 2013 at 15:50
  • What is "them" in "can I then sacrifice them"?
    – ikegami
    Aug 13, 2013 at 18:35
  • I think 'them' refers to his Whispering Shade. Sacrificing 5 creatures with Culling the Weak would be problematic, as you need to cast it 5 times.
    – Colin D
    Aug 13, 2013 at 20:21
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    There seems to be a hefty amount of misunderstanding of the game rules in this question.
    – Hackworth
    Aug 14, 2013 at 8:44

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First of all, with a single Culling the Weak, you can only sacrifice a single creature, not as many as you like. If you could use it multiple times, it would explicitly say so in the text. (Be sure to check the text in the Oracle rather than the text on the physical card.) You can use Living Shade's ability as often as you like, but there is a difference between a one-shot spell effect and an activated ability.

Secondly, once you cast CtW, you cannot cast another spell (Living Death) and then continue sacrificing to CtW, because CtW has resolved, is in the graveyard, and its effect is over.

Thirdly, if you activate Living Shade's ability to make it stronger, then sacrifice it, then bring it back into play from the graveyard, it will be a completely new Living Shade with no "memory" of its previous existence, and thus will be 1/1.

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