Gruesome Menagerie
Guilds of Ravnica 71 • rare
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Collector number
- 71
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Yeong-Hao Han
- Market price
- $0.20
What it does
Choose a creature card with mana value 1 in your graveyard, then do the same for creature cards with mana value 2 and 3. Return those cards to the battlefield.
"Variety is also the spice of death."— Cevraya, Golgari shaman
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Gruesome Menagerie was released in 2018 as part of the Guilds of Ravnica expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Set on the city-wide plane of Ravnica, the card depicts the signature experimentation of the Golgari Swarm, a guild focused on the cycles of life, death, and decomposition. The design intent behind the card was to mechanically embody the Golgari philosophy of recycling fallen resources, allowing players to return a sequence of creatures with increasing mana costs from their graveyard to the battlefield.
The artwork was created by illustrator Svetlin Velinov, who has provided numerous illustrations for the game. Velinov was tasked with visualizing the macabre aesthetic of the Golgari, blending biological horror with the guild's practical approach to recycling. Upon its release, the card was noted for its utility in graveyard-based strategies, offering a structured way to rebuild a board state while maintaining the thematic identity of the expansion's black and green color pairing.
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