Grave Venerations · Compendium

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Mox strategy

Grave Venerations is strong in reanimator and grind-heavy black decks. It grants the monarch instantly to enable steady value by recurring creatures from your graveyard each end step, supporting plays that benefit from creature recursion. The life drain on creatures dying synergizes well with sacrifice and token strategies that generate multiple death triggers, pressuring opponents' life totals. Combining it with cards that help you maintain or steal the monarch token enhances its value. It enables sustained card advantage and incremental life gain, making it ideal in attrition-based midrange or aristocrats-style decks.

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$0.95market (USD)

USD$0.95

EUR€1.72

MTGO Tix2.15 Tix

Format legality

standard—
pioneer—
modern—
legacyLegal
vintageLegal
commanderLegal
pauper—
brawl—
historic—
alchemy—
oathbreakerLegal

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