Cremate
Guildpact 45 • common
- Set
- Guildpact
- Collector number
- 45
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Paolo Parente
- Market price
- $0.12
What it does
Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.
Cremation of the dead is not a religious ritual in Ravnica. It's a business designed to keep the Golgari from growing in numbers.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Cremate was released in 2006 as part of the Guildpact set, the second expansion in the Ravnica block for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set focused on the political and mechanical intersection of three specific guilds—Orzhov, Izzet, and Gruul—within the city-spanning world of Ravnica. As a common-rarity instant, the card was designed to provide players with graveyard interaction, allowing for the exile of a target card while drawing a replacement, which served as a functional tool for managing resources in competitive play.
The artwork for Cremate was provided by Paolo Parente, a prolific illustrator known for his dynamic and gritty style within the game. Parente’s depiction captures the grim, utilitarian nature of the Orzhov Syndicate’s practices, emphasizing the ritualistic disposal of the deceased. The design was received as a solid, versatile utility card that successfully leaned into the atmospheric lore of the Ravnica plane, where the death of a creature serves as a tactical opportunity rather than a finality.
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