Grisly Salvage
Commander 2018 182 • common
- Set
- Commander 2018
- Collector number
- 182
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana green mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black · Green
- Artist
- Dave Kendall
- Market price
- $0.27
What it does
Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.
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
Grisly Salvage was originally introduced in the Return to Ravnica expansion in 2012, designed as an efficient tool for Golgari-aligned decks to fill the graveyard while searching for essential creatures or lands. The card emphasizes the synergy-heavy nature of the Golgari Swarm, a faction characterized by their cyclical view of life and death, and it quickly became a staple in graveyard-focused strategies due to its low mana cost and selection versatility.
The Commander 2018 iteration, illustrated by Johannes Voss, retains the original functional design but provides a fresh visual interpretation of the card's mechanics. Voss’s artwork captures the grim, subterranean scavenging process of the Ravnican undercity with an emphasis on atmospheric lighting and texture, reflecting the card's theme of pulling utility from decay. The piece was well-received by players for its aesthetic contribution to the Commander set, reinforcing the dark, swampy identity of the preconstructed decks it accompanied.
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