Grafdigger's Cage
Mystery Booster 2 222 • rare
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Collector number
- 222
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Nils Hamm
- Market price
- $1.73
What it does
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
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 2012 Dark Ascension expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Designed as a hoser card to combat strategies that rely on creature cards entering the battlefield from graveyards or libraries, it reflects the gothic horror theme of the Innistrad plane. Its presence in the Mystery Booster 2 set serves as a reprint that maintains its relevance in competitive formats where graveyard-centric strategies often dominate the meta.
The artwork, originally illustrated by Svetlin Velinov, depicts a foreboding, ornate cage intended to trap the undead. The design captures the functional mechanical intent of the card through its visual weight, portraying the cage as a restrictive barrier against necromantic forces. It has been widely received by players as a staple sideboard choice for various eternal formats due to its efficient and focused utility against specific deck archetypes.
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