18 cards where the text includes “cards in graveyards”
Ashes of the Abhorrent {1}{W}
Enchantment
Players can’t cast spells from graveyards or activate abilities of cards in graveyards.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.
“Let no trace of the vampires’ foulness remain.”
Illustrated by Daarken
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Command the Dreadhorde {4}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.
Liliana seized the reins of Bolas’s vast army, gritting her teeth behind the Chain Veil.
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Illustrated by Daarken
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Coram, the Undertaker {1}{B}{R}{G}
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
Coram, the Undertaker gets +X/+0, where X is the greatest power among creature cards in all graveyards.
Whenever Coram attacks, each player mills a card.
During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a spell from among cards in graveyards that were put there from libraries this turn.
Illustrated by Kai Carpenter
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Dennick, Pious Apprentice {W}{U}
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Lifelink
Cards in graveyards can’t be the targets of spells or abilities.
Disturb {2}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Dennick, Pious Apparition
Color Indicator: White and Blue Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier
Flying
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into graveyards from anywhere, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It’s an artifact with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)
If Dennick, Pious Apparition would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Illustrated by Chris Rallis
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
| Faces, Tokens, & Other Parts |
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| Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition, MID #317 |
| Clue Token, TMID #16 |
Grafdigger's Cage {1}
Artifact
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can’t enter the battlefield.
Players can’t cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
“Best bury them right. We don’t want any gruesome encores.”
—Constable Trosk
Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Ground Seal {1}{G}
Enchantment
When Ground Seal enters, draw a card.
Cards in graveyards can’t be the targets of spells or abilities.
“Let all we have buried be buried forever.”
—Seton, centaur druid
Illustrated by Charles Urbach
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Kunoros, Hound of Athreos {1}{W}{B}
Legendary Creature — Dog
Vigilance, menace, lifelink
Creature cards in graveyards can’t enter the battlefield.
Players can’t cast spells from graveyards.
Three sharp barks announce an attempt to escape the Underworld. Three sharp bites end it.
Illustrated by Zezhou Chen
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Over My Dead Bodies {4}{B}{B}
Enchantment
Creature cards in graveyards can attack and block as though they were on the battlefield, can block or be blocked only by creature cards in graveyards, are Zombies in addition to their other types, and have undeathtouch. (If they would deal damage to a creature card, exile that creature card instead.)
Creature cards in your graveyard have haste.
Watermark: League of Dastardly Doom
Illustrated by Even Amundsen
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Not Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Not Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Silent Gravestone {1}
Artifact
Cards in graveyards can’t be the targets of spells or abilities.
{4}, {T}: Exile Silent Gravestone and all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.
Made to ward off the Grim Captain and silence the lure of undeath.
Illustrated by Suzanne Helmigh
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Soulless Jailer {2}
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem
Permanent cards in graveyards can’t enter the battlefield.
Players can’t cast noncreature spells from graveyards or exile.
“Lock the door and eat the key.”
—Vraan, Executioner Thane
Illustrated by Donato Giancola
- Standard
- Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Soulquake {3}{U}{U}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Return all creatures on the battlefield and all creature cards in graveyards to their owners’ hands.
The Maelstrom sent a wave of raw mana through the battlefield, carrying off the fighting and fallen alike.
Illustrated by Warren Mahy
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Sphere of Annihilation {X}{B}
Artifact
Sphere of Annihilation enters with X void counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile Sphere of Annihilation, all creatures and planeswalkers with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it, and all creature and planeswalker cards in graveyards with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it.
Illustrated by Jason Felix
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Sudden Salvation {2}{W}{W}
Instant
Choose up to three target permanent cards in graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped under their owners’ control. You draw a card for each opponent who controls one or more of those permanents.
Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Tomik, Distinguished Advokist {W}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
Flying
Lands on the battlefield and land cards in graveyards can’t be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.
Your opponents can’t play land cards from graveyards.
“Some bend the law. I tie it into knots.”
Watermark: Azorius
Illustrated by Johannes Voss
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Azorius Tomik
Turn the Earth {G}
Instant
Choose up to three target cards in graveyards. The owners of those cards shuffle them into their libraries. You gain 2 life.
Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Illustrated by Alayna Danner
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Underworld Cerberus {3}{B}{R}
Creature — Dog
Underworld Cerberus can’t be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Cards in graveyards can’t be the targets of spells or abilities.
When Underworld Cerberus dies, exile it and each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to their hand.
Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Weathered Runestone {2}
Artifact
Nonland permanent cards in graveyards and libraries can’t enter the battlefield.
Players can’t cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Yixlid Jailer {1}{B}
Creature — Zombie Wizard
Cards in graveyards lose all abilities.
“I have an eternity to know the souls who are bound here, to behold their every facet. But moments from now they will be gagged and masked, and they shall be known by none other.”
Illustrated by Matt Cavotta
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Though this query has ended, its relics still slumber in New Argive.