Grafdigger's Cage
Core Set 2020 227 • rare
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Collector number
- 227
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Daniel Ljunggren
- Market price
- $1.84
What it does
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
"Best bury them right. We don't want any gruesome encores."— Constable Trosk
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Grafdigger's Cage was originally introduced in the Dark Ascension expansion of Magic: The Gathering, designed as a potent silver-bullet artifact to suppress graveyard-based strategies and library searching. It reflects the grim, gothic horror aesthetic of the Innistrad plane, where the boundary between life and death is frequently violated by necromancy.
The Core Set 2020 printing maintains the original mechanical intent, featuring art by Johannes Voss that emphasizes the claustrophobic, iron-wrought nature of the object. The design is celebrated by competitive players for its efficiency in disrupting complex combo decks, becoming a staple sideboard card that has remained relevant across multiple eternal formats since its inception.
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