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Shadow of the Grave

Instant1 generic manaBlack mana

The whole card hinges on a single overlooked fact: cycling and discarding put cards in your graveyard, but the cards themselves still exist there to be bought back. This bulk-reanimates that pile to hand, not the battlefield, and it counts everything cycled or discarded during the same turn rather than every card sitting in the yard. That phrasing is the engine. With a discard outlet that draws or loots, you can dump a fistful of cards, recoup them all in response, and dump them again, which turns any madness payoff, any cycling trigger, or any "whenever you discard" effect into a loop limited only by mana and the outlet's throughput. It is a combo enabler dressed as a graveyard trick, and the design space it lives in is narrow on purpose: the return is to hand, so there is no immediate board impact, and a turn-bounded window means it does nothing without the upstream discard or cycling that fed the yard in the first place. The card is pure setup, a cost-reducer for an engine you have already started, asking you to build a deck where putting cards in the graveyard is itself the payoff and getting them back is the multiplier.

Shadow of the Grave (pakh)
PAKH · #107srare
Pricing
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Foil: $2.44
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that you cycled or discarded this turn.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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