Search
Shadow of the Grave
Instant
rare
Return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that you cycled or discarded this turn.
Semantic Tags
A keyword ability that lets a card be discarded and replaced with a new card. See rule 702.29, “Cycling.”
A keyword ability that lets a player return a card from their graveyard to their hand. See rule 702.52, “Dredge.”
Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
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.
To mill a number of cards, a player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard. See rule 701.17.
Returns cards from graveyard to hand or library (not battlefield — that is reanimation).
An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.
Format Legality
Price history
Loading price history…
Printings (3)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amonkhet Remastered#123 | rare | · | · | · |
| Amonkhet#107 | rare | · | · | · |
| Amonkhet Promos#107s | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
While applying a replacement effect that modifies how a permanent enters the battlefield, another replacement effect may cause a player to mill cards or exile cards from the top of a library. In that case, any card that is entering the battlefield from that library won’t be included in that effect, even though those cards are in the library as the effect is applied.
Mill
For a player to mill a number of cards, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.
A player can’t mill a number of cards greater than the number of cards in their library. If given the choice to do so, they can’t choose to take that action. If instructed to do so, they mill as many as possible. Similarly, the player can’t pay a cost that includes milling a number of cards greater than the number of cards in their library.
Cycling
Cycling is an activated ability that functions only while the card with cycling is in a player’s hand. “Cycling [cost]” means “[Cost], Discard this card: Draw a card.”
Although the cycling ability can be activated only if the card is in a player’s hand, it continues to exist while the object is on the battlefield and in all other zones. Therefore objects with cycling will be affected by effects that depend on objects having one or more activated abilities.
Some cards with cycling have abilities that trigger when they’re cycled. “When you cycle this card” means “When you discard this card to pay an activation cost of a cycling ability.” These abilities trigger from whatever zone the card winds up in after it’s cycled.
Rulings
If you discard a card with madness but don’t cast it, Shadow of the Grave can find it in your graveyard. If you do cast that card, Shadow of the Grave can’t find it in your graveyard.
Shadow of the Grave returns to your hand all cards that you discarded for any reason—a card you cycled, cards you discarded to an opponent’s Unburden, and a card you discarded to cast Tormenting Voice all count.