Shattered Crypt
Sorcery
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. You lose X life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #26442
Shattered Crypt lets you exile your entire graveyard and convert each card into a black mana, turning a stocked yard into a burst of ritual mana at instant speed. The ceiling is enormous in any deck that fills its graveyard fast, and the floor is zero — if your graveyard is empty, this card does nothing.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shattered Crypt is a graveyard-payoff card that fits narrowly into self-mill and reanimator shells — the mana burst can power out a finisher or a key spell mid-combo, but it demands setup and is dead in the early game. In Legacy and Vintage, the card exists but faster and less conditional rituals crowd it out entirely. Pauper is its most realistic non-Commander home, where common-legal mana generation is scarce enough that Shattered Crypt could matter in a dedicated dredge or flashback list. Across every format, the same constraint applies: Shattered Crypt is a payoff, not an engine, and you only run it when your deck is already built around filling the graveyard.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Shattered Crypt is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. It won't appreciate; graveyard-payoff commons at this price point stay cheap unless a combo breakout pulls them up, and nothing on the horizon suggests that here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.