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Purify the Grave

InstantWhite mana

Graveyard hate priced to be a non-commitment. Most dedicated answers to graveyard strategies ask you to spend a card and often a mana to deal with the threat: this one spends a single white and exiles one card from a graveyard, then offers to do the work a second time from your own yard for another white. The flashback half is the entire point of the design. A one-shot graveyard answer is too narrow to maindeck against a field that may not even have a graveyard plan; doubling the uses for a second mana turns one card into two interventions, which is closer to the two hits a recursive threat actually demands. Instant speed lets it slip in during an opponent's upkeep, in response to a reanimation trigger on the stack, or before a flashback caster gets the chance to recast a buried spell, plucking the targeted card out of the yard before it converts into value. The single-target restriction keeps it surgical rather than sweeping: this is a tool for a specific card (a reanimation target, a key piece of delve fuel, a flashback spell sitting in the graveyard) rather than a reset button for an entire yard. It is the white answer to a problem most decks would rather not pay full freight to solve, sized so the tax of carrying it is low and the payoff arrives in two installments.

Purify the Grave (isd)
ISD · #27uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.22
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile target card from a graveyard. Flashback White mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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