One of the best sweepers and selective sweepers, Farewell only whiffs on planeswalkers. “Oh, you’re activating a flashback? Lemme do something real quick….” #2. It’s important to note that these targeted graveyard exile effects can be done at instant speed. It’s a mix of equipment and creature thanks to the reconfigure mechanic, and it’s been played in formats like Standard and Explorer. Lion Sash is almost like a white Scavenging Ooze, a creature that’s a staple of various Constructed formats. Being a creature, Remorseful Cleric also allows for recursion and for tutoring for a creature with the ability, like in Birthing Pod strategies. It’s a creature, a cleric, and it can exile graveyards at instant speed. You also gain some life here and there, which is interesting to some EDH decks. Ashes of the AbhorrentĪshes of the Abhorrent helps to prevent the abuse of certain cards in graveyards, like spells with flashback or creatures with escape or unearth. Blue and red are the colors that interact with the graveyard the least, so they’re underrepresented here. Artifacts and colorless lands help all colors, and white’s been getting more consistent graveyard exile together with symmetric effects like Farewell and Rest in Peace. Black gets the most graveyard exile, while green is the second best. You can prevent cards from going the graveyard entirely sometimes by having them be exiled when they’re destroyed.Įach color deals with problematic graveyard synergies in different ways scattered along the mana curve. You can exile cards (individually or in bulk) from an opponent’s graveyard, or you can force them to reshuffle their graveyard into their library. Others rely on returning permanents from the graveyard to your hand or to the battlefield.Īs the name implies, graveyard hate messes with these strategies. Some decks count creatures or other card types that are in their graveyard (ex: Lhurgoyf’s power and toughness are based on the number of creatures in all graveyards).
Graveyard strategies can take many forms. Just like you’ll use removal or sweepers to deal threats that are on the board, graveyard hate looks to deal with threats that are in the graveyard. Graveyard hate is a term for cards that help you to counter an opponent’s graveyard-centric plans. Graveyard Trespasser / Graveyard GluttonĬrypt Incursion | Illustration by Svetlin Velino
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