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Cemetery Desecrator

Creature — Zombie4 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Most graveyard-hate creatures exile a card and stop there; this one converts the exiled card's mana value into a payload, so the size of the effect scales with whatever fuel happens to be lying in a bin. The reach into any graveyard, including your own, is what makes the effect elastic: feed it a high-value spell (yours or an opponent's) and it hands you a lethal -X/-X on a single threat; point it at a graveyard stocked with cheap fetches and cantrips and it barely twitches. A controller running flashback, delve, or self-mill can weaponize their own graveyard rather than waiting on an opponent's, which is what separates this from pure attrition-hate. Both the enter and dies triggers offer the same modal choice, so it fires twice per copy over a life cycle, and the counter-removal mode quietly doubles as a way to peel loyalty off a planeswalker or strip a finality counter off a creature. The menace on the body matters least and is priced accordingly: this was never meant to win on stats. What holds it in check is the sorcery-speed reality of relying on a creature that has to resolve before it does anything, and the fact that its payload is only ever as large as the single card it can dig out of a graveyard. It sits in the lineage of graveyard-hate-as-ammunition, where the exile clause is not just interaction but the fuel line for the removal itself.

Cemetery Desecrator (vow)
VOW · #100mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.37
Foil: $0.44
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace When this creature enters or dies, exile another card from a graveyard. When you do, choose one — • Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. • Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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