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Graveyard Shift
Sorcery
uncommon
This spell has flash as long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.
A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.79, “Persist.”
Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.
Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.
Returns cards from graveyard to hand or library (not battlefield — that is reanimation).
A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.93, “Undying.”
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| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streets of New Capenna#81 | uncommon | · | · | · |
Related Rules
Persist
Persist is a triggered ability. “Persist” means “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a -1/-1 counter on it.”
Undying
Undying is a triggered ability. “Undying” means “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a +1/+1 counter on it.”
If a state-based action results in a permanent leaving the battlefield at the same time other state-based actions were performed, that permanent’s last known information is derived from the game state before any of those state-based actions were performed.
Rulings
If an effect allows you to cast Graveyard Shift from your graveyard, you may cast it any time you could cast an instant if you have five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard immediately before you begin to cast it, even if moving it to the stack would reduce that number to four.
The mana value of a land card is 0.
“Five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard” means there are at least five mana values among those cards.
X is 0 when determining the mana value of a card in your graveyard.
The mana value of a double-faced card in your graveyard is always the mana value of the front face.
The mana value of a split card in the graveyard is the total mana value of both halves of that card. It does not have two mana values.
The game checks whether it is legal to cast a spell before costs are determined or mana abilities are activated while casting it. If cards are removed from your graveyard after that point, such as by exiling Jack-o'-Lantern from your graveyard to pay for its mana ability, this won't affect whether you can legally cast Graveyard Shift, even if that reduces the number of mana values in your graveyard to below five.