\nGrafdigger’s Cage<\/a> prevents players from casting spells from the graveyard or library, as well as creatures from entering the battlefield from a graveyard or library. This is a static ability that changes the rules of the game for as long as the Cage is in play. This means that it stops a lot of things in standard, such as (this sample list is not comprehensive):<\/p>\n
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- Cards with flashback can’t be cast from the graveyard<\/li>\n
- Gravecrawler<\/a> can’t be cast from the graveyard<\/li>\n
- Havengul Lich<\/a> won’t let you cast a creature from a graveyard<\/li>\n
- Green Sun’s Zenith<\/a> can’t grab a green creature from your library and slap it onto the battlefield<\/li>\n
- Undying can’t return creatures to the battlefield when they die<\/li>\n
- Unburial Rites<\/a> can’t return anything to the battlefield<\/li>\n
- You can’t cast creatures from the top of your library with Garruk’s Horde<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Note that this only specifically restricts creature cards from entering the battlefield from the library. The Cage has no interaction with anything that searches for lands (e.g., Solemn Simulacrum<\/a>), and it doesn’t care if you return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand (e.g., Ghoulcaller’s Chant<\/a>). Similarly, searching your library for a creature to put into your hand with Garruk, the Veil-Cursed<\/a> is not a problem.<\/p>\n
Today’s Rules Tip written by
\nRonny Alvarado, Level 2 judge from Houston, TX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"prevents players from casting spells from the graveyard or library, as well as creatures from entering the battlefield from a graveyard or library. This is a static ability that changes the rules of the game for as long as the Cage is in play. This means that it stops a lot of things in standard, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,17],"tags":[674],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuouseffects","category-staticabilities","tag-grafdiggers-cage","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Havengul Lich<\/a> won’t let you cast a creature from a graveyard<\/li>\n