First printed in Streets of New Capenna (2022)
Graveyard Shift 
Sorcery
This spell has flash as long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
"Up and at 'em, buddy. We've got more work to do."
- Illustrated by
- Liiga Smilshkalne
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (7)
- If an effect allows you to cast Graveyard Shift from your graveyard, you may cast it any time you could cast an instant if you have five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard immediately before you begin to cast it, even if moving it to the stack would reduce that number to four.
- The mana value of a land card is 0.
- “Five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard” means there are at least five mana values among those cards.
- X is 0 when determining the mana value of a card in your graveyard.
- The mana value of a double-faced card in your graveyard is always the mana value of the front face.
- The mana value of a split card in the graveyard is the total mana value of both halves of that card. It does not have two mana values.
- The game checks whether it is legal to cast a spell before costs are determined or mana abilities are activated while casting it. If cards are removed from your graveyard after that point, such as by exiling Jack-o'-Lantern from your graveyard to pay for its mana ability, this won't affect whether you can legally cast Graveyard Shift, even if that reduces the number of mana values in your graveyard to below five.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streets of New Capenna (SNC), Premier Draft | 53.8% | -1.4 | +1.8 | 15437 |
| Streets of New Capenna (SNC), Sealed | 50.2% | -4.1 | +0.2 | 749 |
- 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
