Open the Graves
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Combos with Open the Graves
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.
- Hell's Caretaker Teardrop Kami Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- The Last Ride Salvaging Station Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Oathsworn Vampire Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Nether Traitor Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- The Balrog, Durin's Bane Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite commander casts
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Ozox, the Clattering King Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Beifong's Bounty Hunters Umbral Collar Zealot Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite surveil
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer Cadaver Imp Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2018-07-13
If another creature you control dies at the same time that Open the Graves leaves the battlefield, you'll get a Zombie token.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Open the Graves, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gisa and Geralf | 3 | 0 | — |
| Ghoulcaller Gisa | 1 | 1 | — |
| Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Dimir 3 decks
- Mono-Black 2 decks
Every version of Open the Graves
6 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.
Foundations Commander
- Normal
- —
- Foil
- —
Starter Commander Decks
- Normal
- $0.38
- Normal
- $0.64
Promo
Core Set 2019 Promos
- Normal
- $1.08
- Foil
- $1.56
Core Set 2019
- Normal
- $0.76
- Foil
- $1.65
Promo
Core Set 2019 Promos
- Foil
- $3.41
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Open the Graves — 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.
