“It claws at the earth in a vain attempt to reclaim what it once was.”
Grave Sifter
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Creature — Elemental Beast
Mana Cost: {5}{G}
Oracle Rules Text: When this creature enters, each player chooses a creature type and returns any number of cards of that type from their graveyard to their hand.
Flavor Text: It claws at the earth in a vain attempt to reclaim what it once was.
Set: Commander Anthology (#112), Rarity: Rare, Artist: Jesper Ejsing
Creature
Green
Rare
$13.93
Regular
€8.36
Euro
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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
1 Languages
Official Rulings (1)
2014-11-07
The creature type each player chooses applies only to that player. For example, if another player chose Elf, you wouldn’t return Elf cards to your hand unless you also chose Elf (or if an Elf card in your graveyard also had the creature type you chose).
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