Gravedigger
Foundations Jumpstart 452 • common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Collector number
- 452
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Dermot Power
- Market price
- $0.28
What it does
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
A full coffin is like a full coffer—both are attractive to thieves.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Gravedigger is a foundational creature card in Magic: The Gathering, first appearing in the game’s 1997 Tempest expansion. Designed as a functional staple for black-aligned decks, the card embodies the color’s core philosophy of interacting with the graveyard to recycle resources. Its ability to return a creature card from the graveyard to the player's hand provides essential utility, allowing players to reuse powerful threats or stabilize their board state during mid-to-late game scenarios.
The card’s design has been updated visually across many iterations, including its inclusion in the Foundations Jumpstart set, numbered 452. Throughout its decades of printings, the illustration has consistently emphasized themes of necromancy and the macabre, typically featuring an undead figure retrieving a fallen companion. It remains a hallmark of the game's limited formats, valued by players for its reliable, straightforward efficiency and its role in teaching the fundamental importance of card advantage in Magic.
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