Grafdigger's Cage card art

Grafdigger's Cage

Artifact MV 1

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.

Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-07-12

    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.

  • 2019-07-12

    Manifesting a card from a graveyard or library is an impossible action while Grafdigger's Cage is on the battlefield.

  • 2019-07-12

    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.

  • 2019-07-12

    Players can still play lands from graveyards or libraries if an effect allows them to do so.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Grafdigger's Cage, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 10
Win rate 20%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Urza, Lord High Artificer 1 10 20%

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 1 deck

Grafdigger's Cage price history

The Core Set 2020 #227 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$2.73▼ $0.26 (8.7%)
Low $2.21 · High $2.99Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 26, 2026$2.73$7.29
Oct 25, 2026$2.73$7.29
Oct 24, 2026$2.76$7.29
Oct 23, 2026$2.71$7.29
Oct 22, 2026$2.63$7.29
Oct 21, 2026$2.63$7.23
Oct 20, 2026$2.67$7.23
Oct 19, 2026$2.36$7.23
Oct 18, 2026$2.38$7.23
Oct 17, 2026$2.31$7.23
Oct 16, 2026$2.21$7.23
Oct 15, 2026$2.39$7.23
Oct 14, 2026$2.42$7.23
Oct 13, 2026$2.49$7.23
Oct 12, 2026$2.49$7.90
Oct 11, 2026$2.54$7.92
Oct 10, 2026$2.54$8.04
Oct 9, 2026$2.74$8.05
Oct 8, 2026$2.66$8.07
Oct 6, 2026$2.81$7.97
Oct 5, 2026$2.93$7.97
Oct 3, 2026$2.80$7.97
Oct 2, 2026$2.96$7.97
Oct 1, 2026$2.83$7.97
Sep 30, 2026$2.70$7.97
Sep 29, 2026$2.95$7.97
Sep 28, 2026$2.99$7.89

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Grafdigger's Cage

7 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Grafdigger's Cage. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.