Pit Keeper
Time Spiral Remastered 130 • common
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Collector number
- 130
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Anthony S. Waters
- Market price
- $0.09
What it does
When this creature enters, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
"The undead are not 'awakened.' They are evicted when there is no room left in the pit for more bodies."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Pit Keeper was originally released in the 2006 Magic: The Gathering set Time Spiral. Designed as a common black creature, it reflects the set's central theme of revisiting mechanics and archetypes from the game's past, specifically drawing upon the graveyard-interaction identity of the Black color pie. The illustration by Christopher Rush, a legendary artist whose work defined the early aesthetic of the game, emphasizes the dark, utilitarian nature of the creature within the atmospheric context of the expansion.
The 2021 release of Time Spiral Remastered featured a reprinted version of Pit Keeper as card number 130. This set was curated to condense the three-set block into a single drafting experience, allowing players to revisit the complexity and nostalgia of the original era. The card serves as a functional piece of graveyard recursion, a mechanic that has remained a staple of black-aligned strategies throughout the game's history, and its inclusion in the remastered set was intended to maintain the mechanical balance and thematic cohesion of the original environment.
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