Graveyard Shovel
Innistrad 225 • uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad
- Collector number
- 225
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Martina Pilcerova
- Market price
- $0.10
What it does
2 generic mana, tap: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. If it's a creature card, you gain 2 life.
Thanks to Havengul's thriving illegal market for corpses, the shovel that interred a body during the day is usually the same one digging it out at night.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Graveyard Shovel was released as part of the original Innistrad expansion for Magic: The Gathering in 2011. Designed as an artifact with a utility-focused ability, it reflects the set's central gothic horror theme, where graveyard interaction and macabre imagery were foundational mechanical and aesthetic pillars. The card serves as a thematic tool for the denizens of a plane plagued by undead threats, providing players with a way to exile cards from graveyards, a common strategy for disrupting mechanics like flashback or morbid.
The card’s illustration was provided by artist Dave Kendall, who is well-regarded for his dark, moody contributions to the horror-themed setting. Kendall focused on the utilitarian and grim nature of the tool, emphasizing the weathered texture of the shovel to ground the item in the setting's dilapidated, Victorian-inspired aesthetic. Upon its release, it was received as a functional, if niche, sideboard tool, valued primarily for its specific interaction with the graveyard-centric graveyard strategies prevalent during the Innistrad block.
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