Charred Graverobber

otcOutlaws of Thunder Junction Commander#19rare
{2}{B}
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Oracle text

Creature — Skeleton Mercenary

When this creature enters, return target outlaw card from your graveyard to your hand.

Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

This creature escapes with a +1/+1 counter on it.

P/T3/1
Ability breakdown
Abilities
TriggeredWhen this creature enters, return target outlaw card from your graveyard to your hand.
StaticEscape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
StaticThis creature escapes with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Rulings
  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    A card, spell, or permanent is an outlaw if it has the Assassin, Mercenary, Pirate, Rogue, or Warlock creature type. It doesn't matter if it has more than one of those creature types; as long as it has at least one, it's an outlaw.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    After an escaped spell resolves, it returns to its owner's graveyard if it's not a permanent spell. If it is a permanent spell, it enters the battlefield and will return to its owner's graveyard if it dies later. Perhaps it will escape again—good underworld security is so hard to come by these days.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    If a card with escape is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    If an ability refers to an outlaw or whether a player controls an outlaw, it's referring only to permanents with one or more of the creature types specified above. Notably, it's not referring to any spell or card not on the battlefield. However, other abilities may refer to an "outlaw spell" or "outlaw card" in a zone other than the battlefield. Those abilities refer to spells and cards with one or more of the specified creature types.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    Outlaw is not a creature type. If an effect asks you to choose a creature type, you can't choose outlaw.

  • WotCApr 12, 2024

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.

Why you'd run this

Plays as
Etb ValueRecursionFodder

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Where you can play it

commander
Legal to play
All formats
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
competitivebrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Flavor & art
Illustrated by
Matt Stewart
Market & price history
Reference & links
Card details
Artist
Matt Stewart
Frame
2015
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
oval