Unmarked Grave
Sorcery
Search your library for a nonlegendary card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #1554
Unmarked Grave puts any non-legendary card directly into the graveyard for two mana — that's full graveyard setup on turn two, no discard outlet required. The Beamtown Bullies alone makes this a staple, but any deck that wants a specific creature or artifact in the bin on demand runs it for the same reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Beamtown Bullies
The Beamtown Bullies needs a specific fatty in the graveyard before it can start donating threats to opponents, and Unmarked Grave is the most efficient way to put exactly the right card there on turn two.
Trazyn the Infinite
Trazyn the Infinite copies activated abilities from creatures in the graveyard, so Unmarked Grave acts as a tutor-to-graveyard for whichever ability Trazyn needs to imprint.
Greasefang, Okiba Boss
Greasefang, Okiba Boss reanimates a Vehicle from the graveyard at the start of combat — Unmarked Grave finds Parhelion II or whichever Vehicle closes the game and puts it exactly where Greasefang wants it.
Magar of the Magic Strings
Magar of the Magic Strings needs instants and sorceries exiled from the graveyard to copy, and Unmarked Grave slots in a key spell at instant-speed setup while also just being a two-mana sorcery that goes to the bin itself for Magar to exile later.
Mairsil, the Pretender
Mairsil, the Pretender cages activated abilities from creatures and artifacts, so Unmarked Grave handles the tutoring half of the setup — find the ability piece, drop it in the yard, cage it next turn.
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 |
In Commander, Unmarked Grave is a role-player in any graveyard-value or reanimator shell that wants a specific non-legendary card in the bin without jumping through discard hoops. In Modern, it slots into Esper Reanimator and Living End-adjacent lists as a two-mana setup piece, though it's limited by the non-legendary clause that keeps it off Griselbrand and similar targets. Legacy sees it occasionally in Dredge and reanimator variants, but the format has enough redundancy that it's rarely a four-of. Vintage treats it as a curiosity — the format moves too fast for a two-mana sorcery to matter much. Oathbreaker gives it occasional homes in graveyard signatures, but the format is niche enough that inclusion rates are low.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data for Unmarked Grave isn't available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its 70%+ inclusion rate in The Beamtown Bullies decks and strong showings across several other high-volume commanders, it tends to hold meaningful value for a non-mythic tutor effect.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.