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Graveyard Busybody

{4}{U}{U}

Creature — Human Spy

USTUnstable#34rare

You have to hang around the graveyard if you want to catch the talking dead.

Finishes
Nonfoil · Foil
Border
silver
Security stamp
oval
Frame
2015
Pull rate
~1 in 40–1067
Illustrator
Bram Sels
Found in
Unstable Booster Pack
Printings2
CommanderNot legalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyNot legal
VintageNot legal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderNot legal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
All graveyards are also your graveyards. Graveyard Busybody's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards with flavor text in your graveyards.
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Market · per finishspark updated 24h ago · prices as of 2026-08-29
Nonfoil+6.7%
$0.32
$0.18 low$0.15 gapTCGplayer
Foil0.0%
$0.53
$0.25 low$0.17 gapTCGplayer
Cheapest playable copy$0.30· across 2 printings· view the cheapest printing ›

Rulings

5 · latest Jan 19, 2018
  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    Cards owned by your opponents still go to the appropriate graveyard.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    If an effect asks how many cards are in your graveyard, use the total number of cards in all your graveyards. However, they are still separate graveyards. If an effect affects a single graveyard, such as shuffling it into its owner’s library, only that one graveyard is shuffled in.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    If more than one player controls a Graveyard Busybody, the one that entered the battlefield most recently “wins.” The controller of that Graveyard Busybody has all the graveyards, and any other player’s Graveyard Busybody is a 0/0 that is put into the graveyard that player used to have as a state-based action.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    Only you can use abilities of cards in graveyards. For example, if a spell requires that you exile cards from your graveyard, you can exile cards from any graveyard. Any card that looks at cards in graveyards looks at any or all your graveyards.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    Speaking of that, cards in graveyards are shuffled into their owners’ libraries. You won’t put any cards from graveyards you stole, er . . . borrowed into your library.