Mausoleum Secrets

A black tutor whose ceiling scales with the contents of your own graveyard, which inverts the usual tension of an Undergrowth design. Most graveyard mechanics turn the bin into raw material; this one turns it into a budget. With an empty graveyard the mana value cap sits at zero, so it fetches only a black card that costs nothing at all: a Slaughter Pact, a Profane Tutor. Stock four or more creature cards and it becomes a genuine dig, retrieving a board wipe, a reanimation spell, or whatever black answer the board demands. The constraint is that you have to build the graveyard first: it rewards self-mill, sacrifice, or aggressive trading early, since every creature in the yard raises the cap by one and the ceiling only climbs as fast as bodies fall. Bury enough and there is no hard limit at the top, but getting the cap high enough to reach black's expensive threats is real work, which makes this a midgame piece by construction rather than a turn-two enabler. The instant timing is where it earns its keep, letting you hold up the option of fetching a kill spell or a combo finisher in response to what the opponent commits, rather than committing first. It sits in a lineage of conditional tutors that trade reliability for rate: where Demonic Tutor pays full freight for any card and Vampiric Tutor buys speed and precision with life, this one asks you to build a graveyard worth digging through, then rewards the work with a flexible fetch at instant speed.