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Unmake the Graves

Unmake the Graves

Instant

common

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.) Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

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Semantic Tags

Convokemechanical

A keyword ability that lets you tap creatures rather than pay mana to cast a spell. See rule 702.51, “Convoke.”

Convokevector

A keyword ability that lets you tap creatures rather than pay mana to cast a spell. See rule 702.51, “Convoke.”

Dredgevector

A keyword ability that lets a player return a card from their graveyard to their hand. See rule 702.52, “Dredge.”

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.

Undyingvector

A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.93, “Undying.”

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
pauperlegal
historicnot legal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Magic 2015#120common···

Related Concepts

Convoke

A keyword ability that lets you tap creatures rather than pay mana to cast a spell. See rule 702.51, “Convoke.”

Related Rules

702.51

Convoke

702.51a

Convoke is a static ability that functions while the spell with convoke is on the stack. “Convoke” means “For each colored mana in this spell’s total cost, you may tap an untapped creature of that color you control rather than pay that mana. For each generic mana in this spell’s total cost, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay that mana.”

702.51b

The convoke ability isn’t an additional or alternative cost and applies only after the total cost of the spell with convoke is determined.

702.51d

Multiple instances of convoke on the same spell are redundant.

702.52

Dredge

702.52a

Dredge is a static ability that functions only while the card with dredge is in a player’s graveyard. “Dredge N” means “As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead mill N cards and return this card from your graveyard to your hand.”

702.52b

A player with fewer cards in their library than the number required by a dredge ability can’t mill any of them this way.

702.93

Undying

Rulings

2024-01-12

Tapping an untapped creature that's attacking or blocking to convoke a spell won't cause that creature to stop attacking or blocking.

2024-01-12

You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

2024-01-12

Because convoke isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.

2024-01-12

When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.

2024-01-12

If a creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.

2024-01-12

Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature's colors.