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Silent Gravestone

Artifact1 generic mana

Graveyard hate usually announces itself: a body that exiles a card each upkeep, a mana-hungry sweep that empties the yard, a repeatable trigger the opponent has to race. This takes a quieter route. The static line is the real work, and it works by a specific, narrow mechanism: it forbids the act of pointing a spell or ability at a card sitting in a graveyard. No Snapcaster Mage flashing back a spell from the yard, no reanimation aimed at a specific creature, no targeted return from any color. Passive graveyard emptying is outside its scope, and so is anything that never bothers to target: escape and delve exile their fuel as a cost rather than pointing at it, so a deck built on those slips right past the lock. That precision is the design point. Most recursion works by aiming something at a chosen card, and a one-mana artifact that blanks the targeting step taxes a whole category of play for a trivial deckbuilding cost. It is as fragile as any artifact, so the activated half doubles as its own exit: a fixed four-mana toll that exiles every graveyard and the artifact along with it, refunding the card you spent on setup. Firing it gives the piece away, forcing a choice between denying targeting indefinitely and cashing the whole thing in once. Colorless, cheap, and protecting nothing of its own, it functions as a friction cost imposed on an opposing plan rather than an answer to any single card.

Silent Gravestone (prix)
PRIX · #182srare
Pricing
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Foil: $1.92
Oracle Text

Rules text

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities. 4 generic mana, Tap: Exile this artifact and all cards from all graveyards. Draw a 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
Legal
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