Shallow Grave 
Reserved ListInstant
Oracle Text
Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Format Legality
LegacyVintagePremodernDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Shallow Grave, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy | 19 | 4 | 74 | 3.9 |
| Duel Commander | 1 | 1 | 34 | 1 |
| Premodern | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.8 |
Details
- Set
- Mirage
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 141
Non-foil
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Shallow Grave
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (20)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered
- 1 Grief
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Griselbrand
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
- 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Astral Dragon
- 1 Sundering Titan
- 1 Summon: Bahamut
- 1 Psychic Frog
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Lively Dirge
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Stock Up
- 1 Lórien Revealed
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (16)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (38)
- 1 Agna Qel'a
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 River of Tears
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (17)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Svyelunite Temple
- 10 Swamp
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Fallaji Archaeologist
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Grief
- 1 Spellseeker
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
- 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Priest of Fell Rites
Sorceries (15)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (7)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Adarkar Wastes
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Tomb Fortress
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (17)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Svyelunite Temple
- 10 Swamp
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (20)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (20)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Spellseeker
- 1 Harvester of Misery
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
- 1 Quantum Riddler
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Magister of Worth
- 1 Ashen Rider
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Angel of the Ruins
- 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Astral Dragon
- 1 Summon: Bahamut
- 1 Psychic Frog
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Concealed Courtyard
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Lively Dirge
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 From the Catacombs
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Stitch Together
- 1 Faithless Looting
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (36)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Graven Cairns
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mount Doom
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shadowblood Ridge
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (20)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Fallaji Archaeologist
- 1 Grief
- 1 Kavaero, Mind-Bitten
- 1 Loyal Retainers
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
- 1 Anger
- 1 Pinnacle Monk
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Griselbrand
- 1 Sin, Spira's Punishment
- 1 Sire of Insanity
- 1 Ashen Rider
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
- 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
- 1 Woodfall Primus
- 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Priest of Fell Rites
Sorceries (16)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (36)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 City of Brass
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Island
- 1 Lush Portico
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Temple Garden
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (17)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Svyelunite Temple
- 10 Swamp
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (23)
- 1 Bitter Triumph
- 1 Cabal Ritual
- 1 Shallow Grave
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Daze
- 1 Flash
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Corpse Dance
- 1 Saw in Half
- 1 Frantic Search
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Burnt Offering
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Tainted Indulgence
- 1 Mental Misstep
Artifacts (1)
Lands (36)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Tomb Fortress
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
