Buried Alive
Secret Lair Drop 1673 • rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Collector number
- 1673
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Filipe Pagliuso
- Market price
- $24.71
What it does
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
"I'm getting better." "No you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Buried Alive was originally released in the 1998 expansion Weatherlight and became a cornerstone of graveyard-centric strategies in Magic: The Gathering. The card allows a player to search their library for three creature cards and place them directly into their graveyard, a powerful engine for enabling powerful reanimation spells. Over the decades, it has maintained a reputation as one of the most efficient tutor effects for black decks in Eternal formats.
This particular version, released as part of a Secret Lair drop, features a unique aesthetic treatment that diverges from the game's standard visual language. Secret Lair cards are produced as premium, limited-availability products that often highlight diverse artistic styles and themes. By reimagining established cards through thematic art, these drops serve both as functional game pieces and as collectible art objects intended to appeal to players interested in the intersection of TCG mechanics and contemporary illustration.
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