First printed in Dark Ascension (2012)
All 8 prints
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Mystery Booster 2 (MB2) #222, 2024
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Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #324, 2021
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Core Set 2020 (M20) #227, 2019
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Core Set 2020 Promos (PM20) #227p, 2019
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Core Set 2020 Promos (PM20) #227s, 2019
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Magic Online Promos (PRM) #69989, 2018 (digital)
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Modern Masters 2017 (MM3) #221, 2017
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Dark Ascension (DKA) #149, 2012
Grafdigger's Cage 
Artifact
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
"If you wind up in one of mine, you can be sure as silver it will be your last."
—Grafdigger Wulmer
- Illustrated by
- Daniel Ljunggren
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (4)
- Look at the card as it exists in your graveyard to determine whether it can enter the battlefield. For example, Sculpting Steel can be put onto the battlefield as a copy of a creature, but Phyrexian Metamorph can't be put onto the battlefield, even if it would copy a noncreature artifact.
- Manifesting a card from a graveyard or library is an impossible action while Grafdigger's Cage is on the battlefield.
- If an effect exiles a card from a library and allows a player to cast it, that player may do so. The spell is cast from exile, not a library.
- Players can still play lands from graveyards or libraries if an effect allows them to do so.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.69 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
Staple
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Modern staples:
sideboard, 23% of decks (#5)
Colorless, Artifacts, Graveyard hate -
Legacy staples:
sideboard, 11% of decks (#19)
Colorless, Artifacts, Graveyard hate -
Vintage staples:
sideboard, 38% of decks (#3)
Colorless, Artifacts, Graveyard hate -
Commander staples:
main deck, 7% of decks (#258)
Colorless, Artifacts, Graveyard hate
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