CardName: Gravecleanse
Cost: GB
Type: Sorcery
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Rules Text: Exile all cards in all graveyards that have an ability.
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Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None
Gravecleanse
Sorcery
Exile all cards in all graveyards that have an ability.
This is really boring, it's still playing up black and green's facility with graveyards, but in reverse. But it seems in pie, and it anti-synergises with golgari dredge and scavenge mechanically and thematically.
I quite like the flavour: obviously cleaning up the dead is a natural green/black thing, but the opposite of the golgari who revel in using the dead.
I didn't feel it was especially innovative, more like, there's really little overlap between B/G except in the graveyard :)
Hm, is there a clear breakdown how W/B/G divy up graveyard removal? I picked this because it specifically hosed golgari, but still allowed things like boneyard wurm, but I'm not sure if it's clearly a different colour to "exile all cards".
I think generally white and black can exile anything they like from graveyards: Beckon Apparition is and has been reprinted; Cremate and Purify the Grave are very similar grave-spot-removal cards; and black and white both have a bunch of mass graveyard-exiling too.
The only outlier is Identity Crisis. It feels to me like black is clearly exiling the hand, so the graveyard part must be white... but perhaps the white is just because it's exiling hand rather than just discarding it? Hmm.
For Challenge # 066
This is really boring, it's still playing up black and green's facility with graveyards, but in reverse. But it seems in pie, and it anti-synergises with golgari dredge and scavenge mechanically and thematically.
I quite like the flavour: obviously cleaning up the dead is a natural green/black thing, but the opposite of the golgari who revel in using the dead.
Hmm. Clever: play into the same space that the guilds do, but in reverse.
Also curious that this effect pretty much fits in black-green, but just "exile all cards from graveyards" is white :)
Thanks!
I didn't feel it was especially innovative, more like, there's really little overlap between B/G except in the graveyard :)
Hm, is there a clear breakdown how W/B/G divy up graveyard removal? I picked this because it specifically hosed golgari, but still allowed things like boneyard wurm, but I'm not sure if it's clearly a different colour to "exile all cards".
I think generally white and black can exile anything they like from graveyards: Beckon Apparition is
and has been reprinted; Cremate and Purify the Grave are very similar grave-spot-removal cards; and black and white both have a bunch of mass graveyard-exiling too.
Hmm... But actually, there's a difference. Black gets to exile all of one player's graveyard: Haunting Echoes, Bojuka Bog, Ravenous Trap, Nihil Spellbomb. White has to exile all graveyards: Rest in Peace, Morningtide.
The only outlier is Identity Crisis. It feels to me like black is clearly exiling the hand, so the graveyard part must be white... but perhaps the white is just because it's exiling hand rather than just discarding it? Hmm.
By contrast, green's graveyard removal is almost always putting it back into the library. Serene Remembrance, Dwell on the Past, Gaea's Blessing, Loaming Shaman, Gurzigost, Memory's Journey (which along with Mnemonic Nexus and a few others shows that blue can play here too), etc. And white occasionally plays in this space too: Archangel's Light.
So perhaps the most obviously green-black form of this card is:
> Choose one: exile all cards from target player's graveyard; or target player shuffles all cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.