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Gnaw to the Bone

First printed in Innistrad (2011)

All 3 prints

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Gnaw to the Bone

Instant

You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard.
Flashback 2 genericGreen (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Illustrated by
Scott Chou

Legality

Rulings (6)

  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Gnaw to the Bone in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR), Premier Draft 52.7% -1.5 +1.1 2300
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Pauper In 8 of 1787 decks (0.4%), most in Balustrade Spy

Share of decks
0.4%
▼ 0.2 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-10: 0.7% 2026-08-17: 1.4% 2026-08-24: 2.0% 2026-08-31: 0.7% 2026-09-07: 1.0% 2026-09-14: 0.2% 2026-09-21: 0.5% 2026-09-28: 0.5% 2026-10-05: 0.2% 2026-10-12: 0.5% 2026-10-19: 0.8% 2026-10-26: 0.4%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
8
5 main, 4 sideboard
Avg. copies
3.4
in the main deck
Win rate
50%
0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Balustrade Spy 4.5% 1%
Mono Green Elves 4.4% 1%
BG (unclassified) 0.8% 21%
UG (unclassified) 0.8% 7%
BRG (unclassified) 0.2% 33%
WBRG (unclassified) 0.1% 50%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Malevolent Rumble100%12.5
Generous Ent100%7.6
Satyr Wayfinder80%290.1
Circle of the Land Druid80%290.1
Scrapwork Mutt80%241.7
Stinkweed Imp80%241.7
Lotleth Giant80%16.1
Dread Return80%16.1
Town Greeter60%272.0
Wooded Ridgeline60%64.0

Best win rate

DeckRecord
WBRG
ciurlo in Pauper Challenge 32
3-3
50%
BG
FakeShaver in Pauper Challenge 16
3-3
50%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Mono Green Elves
R4w,
2 side 5-0
WBRG
ciurlo,
4 side #28
of 55
3-3
BRG
_Moroii,
3 main 5-0
Balustrade Spy
-__L__-,
1 side 5-0
BG
_Moroii,
3 main 5-0
BG
FakeShaver,
4 main #15
of 33
3-3
BG
Tyler Kiesner,
3 main
1 side
#27
of 50
1-3
UG
Yannick Gratacos,
4 main #216
of 258
1-2