All Suns' Dawn

Sorcery, 4G (5)

For each color, return up to one target card of that color from your graveyard to your hand. Exile All Suns' Dawn.

Illus. Glen Angus

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 12/1/2004: All Suns' Dawn can have from zero to five targets, one for each color.
• 12/1/2004: You can target two blue-and-white multicolored cards by choosing one as the blue card and one as the white card.
• 12/1/2004: You choose the color each target must be when you choose it as a target, so if the card you targeted as a blue card is red when All Suns' Dawn resolves, the card is an illegal target, even if the spell doesn't target another red card.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Beckon Apparition

Instant, {W/B} (1)

Exile target card from a graveyard. Put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

The foyer is littered with the coins it demands but can no longer hold.

Illus. Cliff Childs

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 8/1/2008: The controller of Beckon Apparition gets the token.
• 1/24/2013: Beckon Apparition will be on the stack when you choose its target. It can’t target itself.
• 1/24/2013: If the target card is an illegal target when Beckon Apparition tries to resolve (if it's no longer in the graveyard, for instance), the spell will be countered and none of its effects will happen. You won’t get a Spirit token.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Carrion Beetles

Creature — Insect 1/1, B (1)

{2}{B}, {T}: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Illus. Ron Spencer

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: If any of the targets are not there on resolution, the others are still affected.
• 10/4/2004: You pick the 0, 1, 2, or 3 target cards on announcement.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Charnelhoard Wurm

Creature — Wurm 6/6, 4BRG (7)

Trample

Whenever Charnelhoard Wurm deals damage to an opponent, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Jund's dragons hoard only sangrite crystals. Its wurms aren't so picky.

Illus. Lars Grant-West

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 2/1/2009: If Charnelhoard Wurm is dealt lethal damage at the same time it deals damage to an opponent, Charnelhoard Wurm will be in your graveyard by the time you put its ability on the stack. In that case, you can target it with its own ability.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Codex Shredder

Artifact, 1 (1)

{T}: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Illus. Jason Felix

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/1/2012: You choose the target of Codex Shredder’s last ability before paying its costs, so you can’t return Codex Shredder to your hand this way.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Coffin Purge

Instant, B (1)

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Flashback {B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Illus. Pete Venters

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Conjurer's Bauble

Artifact, 1 (1)

{T}, Sacrifice Conjurer's Bauble: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

It is the moment of discovery, the triumph of the mind, the reimagining of past glory.

Illus. Darrell Riche

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Creakwood Ghoul

Creature — Plant Zombie 3/3, 4B (5)

{B/G}{B/G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 1 life.

Some eat the living. Some eat the dead. It eats the past.

Illus. Thomas M. Baxa

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 8/1/2008: If the targeted card is removed from the graveyard before the ability resolves, the entire ability is countered. You won't gain 1 life.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Cremate

Instant, B (1)

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Draw a card.

"Without a body, the soul is helpless to fight the terms of our contracts."
—Somhaur, Orzhov pontiff

Illus. Cynthia Sheppard

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/1/2012: You must be able to target a card in a graveyard to cast Cremate.
• 10/1/2012: If the target card is no longer in the graveyard when Cremate tries to resolve, it will be countered and none of its effects will happen. You won’t draw a card.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Crypt Creeper

Creature — Zombie 2/1, 1B (2)

Sacrifice Crypt Creeper: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"I guess what they say is true. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Or at least stranger."
—Captain Eberhart

Illus. Scott Chou

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 5/1/2012: You must be able to target a card in a graveyard to activate Crypt Creeper's ability. It can't target itself.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Darkpact

Sorcery, BBB (3)

Remove Darkpact from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

You own target card in the ante. Exchange that card with the top card of your library.

Illus. Quinton Hoover

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Official Reprint Policy (This card is on the reserved list)

• Banned in Vintage (Type 1)
• Banned in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Banned in Commander

Decompose

Sorcery, 1B (2)

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

"Sheesh! How am I supposed to make a decent living around here?"
—Cabal grave robber

Illus. Tony Szczudlo

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Dirty (Down/Dirty)

Sorcery, 2G (3)

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Illus. Svetlin Velinov

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 4/15/2013: If you’re casting a split card with fuse from any zone other than your hand, you can’t cast both halves. You’ll only be able to cast one half or the other.
• 4/15/2013: To cast a fused split spell, pay both of its mana costs. While the spell is on the stack, its converted mana cost is the total amount of mana in both costs.
• 4/15/2013: You can choose the same object as the target of each half of a fused split spell, if appropriate.
• 4/15/2013: When resolving a fused split spell with multiple targets, treat it as you would any spell with multiple targets. If all targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, the spell is countered and none of its effects happen. If at least one target is still legal at that time, the spell resolves, but an illegal target can’t perform any actions or have any actions performed on it.
• 4/15/2013: When a fused split spell resolves, follow the instructions of the left half first, then the instructions on the right half.
• 4/15/2013: In every zone except the stack, split cards have two sets of characteristics and two converted mana costs. If anything needs information about a split card not on the stack, it will get two values.
• 4/15/2013: On the stack, a split spell that hasn’t been fused has only that half’s characteristics and converted mana cost. The other half is treated as though it didn’t exist.
• 4/15/2013: Some split cards with fuse have two monocolor halves of different colors. If such a card is cast as a fused split spell, the resulting spell is multicolored. If only one half is cast, the spell is the color of that half. While not on the stack, such a card is multicolored.
• 4/15/2013: Some split cards with fuse have two halves that are both multicolored. That card is multicolored no matter which half is cast, or if both halves are cast. It’s also multicolored while not on the stack.
• 4/15/2013: If a player names a card, the player may name either half of a split card, but not both. A split card has the chosen name if one of its two names matches the chosen name.
• 4/15/2013: If you cast a split card with fuse from your hand without paying its mana cost, you can choose to use its fuse ability and cast both halves without paying their mana costs.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Dwell on the Past

Sorcery, G (1)

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.

None can find what hasn't been lost.
—Nantuko teaching

Illus. Rebecca Guay

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Ebony Charm

Instant, B (1)

Choose one — Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life; or exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard; or target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Illus. Gerry Grace

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: It targets the cards in the graveyard. These targets are selected when casting the spell.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Elven Cache

Sorcery, 2GG (4)

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Elves know where to harvest the best of the forest, for they planted it there themselves.

Illus. Rebecca Guay

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Eternal Witness

Creature — Human Shaman 2/1, 1GG (3)

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Illus. Terese Nielsen

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Extirpate

Instant, B (1)

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Illus. Jon Foster

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/7/2013: Players still get priority while a card with split second is on the stack.
• 6/7/2013: Split second doesn't prevent players from activating mana abilities.
• 6/7/2013: Split second doesn't prevent triggered abilities from triggering. If one does, its controller puts it on the stack and chooses targets for it, if any. Those abilities will resolve as normal.
• 6/7/2013: Split second doesn't prevent players from performing special actions. Notably, players may turn face-down creatures face up while a spell with split second is on the stack.
• 6/7/2013: Casting a spell with split second won't affect spells and abilities that are already on the stack.
• 6/7/2013: If the resolution of a triggered ability involves casting a spell, that spell can't be cast if a spell with split second is on the stack.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Fade from Memory

Instant, B (1)

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Proper burial is a luxury Otarians can no longer afford.

Illus. David Martin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/1/2008: Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Faerie Macabre

Creature — Faerie Rogue 2/2, 1BB (3)

Flying

Discard Faerie Macabre: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards.

The line between dream and death is gauzy and fragile. She leads those too near it from one side to the other.

Illus. rk post

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 5/1/2008: Faerie Macabre's second ability can be activated only while it's in your hand. You can do this any time you could cast an instant.
• 5/1/2008: The targeted cards may be in the same graveyard or in different graveyards.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern