Buried Alive card art

Buried Alive

Sorcery MV 3

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What it does

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Combos with Buried Alive

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Morophon, the Boundless Corpse Knight Dauntless Bodyguard Haakon, Stromgald Scourge Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Reanimate Chainer, Dementia Master Viscera Seer Kokusho, the Evening Star Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Necromancy Chainer, Dementia Master Viscera Seer Kokusho, the Evening Star Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Animate Dead Chainer, Dementia Master Viscera Seer Kokusho, the Evening Star Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Reanimate Chainer, Dementia Master Viscera Seer Gray Merchant of Asphodel Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Necromancy Chainer, Dementia Master Viscera Seer Gray Merchant of Asphodel Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Animate Dead Chainer, Dementia Master Viscera Seer Gray Merchant of Asphodel Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2004-10-04

    You can look in your library and then choose to find any number from zero to three creatures after you look at it.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Buried Alive, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 10
Games played 3
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Syr Konrad, the Grim 1 2 —
Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 1 —
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 1 0 —
Disa the Restless 1 0 —
Gollum, Riddle Master 1 0 —
Kathril, Aspect Warper 1 0 —
Kroxa and Kunoros 1 0 —
Muldrotha, the Gravetide 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 2 decks
  • Abzan 2 decks
  • Mardu 2 decks
  • Jund 1 deck
  • Sultai 1 deck
  • Orzhov 1 deck

Every version of Buried Alive

11 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Buried Alive — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.