Vile Entomber
Foundations 616 • uncommon
- Set
- Foundations
- Collector number
- 616
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Chris Cold
- Market price
- $0.23
What it does
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
The dead are lonely in the crypt and always eager for company.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Vile Entomber was released as part of the Magic: The Gathering Foundations set, which was designed to serve as a cornerstone collection for the game, blending new mechanical designs with core archetypes. The card was created to provide black-aligned decks with a reliable tool for graveyard manipulation, reflecting the color's long-standing mechanical theme of interacting with the deceased to gain card advantage or fuel later resurrection strategies.
The artistic direction for Vile Entomber focuses on the visceral and grim aesthetic typical of high-fantasy necromancy. By illustrating a figure tasked with the morbid duty of preparing remains for a dark purpose, the visual design reinforces the card's function as a graveyard tutor. It was received by the player base as a functional utility piece, valued primarily for its efficiency in facilitating reanimator strategies within the broader context of the current standard environment.
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