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Gravegouger

Creature — Nightmare Horror2 generic manaBlack mana

Most graveyard hate exiles permanently: Tormod's Crypt clears the yard, Bojuka Bog buries it for good. This one only borrows. The exiled cards sit in limbo while the 2/2 holds the battlefield, and they snap back the instant it dies, bounces, or gets exiled itself. That conditional return defines the card and works against its own intent. Against a graveyard-recursion deck it is a stay of execution rather than a sentence: kill the Nightmare Horror and the threatened reanimation target lands back where it started, which leaves the effect inert against an opponent holding removal. The leaves-the-battlefield clause makes the body the load-bearing part of the hate, not the enter trigger; you are not denying the graveyard so much as holding it hostage with a fragile keeper. The exile is one-way in its grip on you, too: you cannot pick the timing of the return, since it fires off your creature dying rather than your choice, which makes the lock only as durable as a 2/2 is in combat. That is graveyard hate built as a removable speed bump rather than a wall, and it reads as a flavor-forward creature first and a tool second: the Nightmare Horror clutches the dead, and the dead go free the moment it falls.

Gravegouger (tor)
TOR · #62common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $1.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owner's graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
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PreDH
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Gladiator
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Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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