Mortuary
Stronghold 66 • rare
- Set
- Stronghold
- Collector number
- 66
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Robert Bliss
- Market price
- $20.71
What it does
Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put that card on top of your library.
"Think of them not as failures but as works in progress."— Volrath
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Mortuary was released in 1998 as part of the Stronghold expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As the second set in the Rath Cycle, Stronghold focused heavily on the mechanics of the Rath plane and introduced powerful graveyard-based utility cards. The enchantment reflects the dark, gothic aesthetic of the game's black-aligned cards, designed to offer players a unique strategic trade-off by placing creatures directly on top of the library rather than the graveyard.
The card’s illustration was crafted by artist Robert Bliss, who contributed several pieces to the game during the late 1990s. Bliss opted for a somber, claustrophobic visual style that emphasizes the card's function of recycling the dead. Upon its release, Mortuary was noted for its distinct mechanical niche, though it remained a situational rare that appealed primarily to casual deck-builders interested in manipulation of the draw order.
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