Cremate
Guildpact 45 • common
- Set
- Guildpact
- Collector number
- 45
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Paolo Parente
- Market price
- $0.15
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 expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, this set focused on the Orzhov, Izzet, and Gruul guilds, with Cremate specifically representing the Orzhov Syndicate's thematic focus on life, death, and debt. Its mechanical function—exiling a card from a graveyard while drawing a new one—perfectly encapsulates the guild's flavor of extracting value from the departed.
The artwork for this version of the card was created by Aleksi Briclot, a prolific illustrator whose work has defined the visual aesthetic of the game for many years. Briclot utilized a dark, somber palette to emphasize the grim nature of the spell, aiming to capture the cold efficiency of the Orzhov faith. Upon release, the card was received as a functional, utility-focused common, frequently utilized in graveyard-heavy formats for its ability to disrupt opponents while replacing itself in the player's hand.
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