Gravestorm
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent may exile a card from their graveyard. If that player doesn't, you may draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Hachette UK
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16656
Gravestorm copies a spell for every permanent that hit the graveyard this turn — in the right deck, that's not one copy, it's six. The setup cost is real, but any shell already sacrificing artifacts or tokens gets this for free.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Gravestorm lives — sacrifice-heavy decks like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle can trigger it a half-dozen times in a single turn, and the enchantment format means it sticks around for repeated explosions. Legacy and Vintage have the raw speed to fuel graveyard counts, but dedicated storm decks there run Past in Flames or Yawgmoth's Will instead — Gravestorm is too conditional for those linear engines. It's legal in Oathbreaker as well, where the compressed game length can make a single eruption lethal, but the pool of commanders that abuse it is narrower.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Gravestorm right now — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number. It's a narrow enough card that demand is driven almost entirely by Commander brewers in sacrifice shells, so price tends to stay low outside of any reprint announcements.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.