Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
Land
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: Until end of turn, this land becomes a black and green Plant Zombie creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard." It's still a land.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Anthology Volume II
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #11745
Svogthos, the Restless Tomb turns your graveyard into a land that attacks — for four mana it becomes a creature with power and toughness equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard. The tap cost and sorcery-speed activation are real friction, but in any deck that fills the bin fast, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord decks chief among them, that's a free threat stapled to a land slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord sacrifices creatures to deal damage equal to their power, and Svogthos, the Restless Tomb can grow enormous in the same graveyard Jarad is exploiting — making it both a backup threat and a legitimate sac target to close out a game.
Old Stickfingers
Old Stickfingers mills creatures directly into the graveyard by design, and Svogthos, the Restless Tomb scales directly off that count — the deeper the bin gets, the more dangerous the land becomes as a standalone attacker.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Svogthos, the Restless Tomb is a Commander staple in Golgari graveyard shells, where a land that moonlights as a late-game threat is exactly the kind of resource-efficient threat those decks want. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees no meaningful play — the format speed makes a four-mana sorcery-speed activation on a land completely uncompetitive. Modern has long since moved past it for the same reason; creature-lands there activate at instant speed and cost less. Commander is the one format where slow, incremental graveyard growth is the game plan, and Svogthos rewards exactly that.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Svogthos, the Restless Tomb is bulk — it costs less than a draft pick and belongs in every Golgari graveyard deck that can run it. Bulk rares with narrow but real applications like this one tend to sit at this floor indefinitely, so there's no timing consideration: just pick it up.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.