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Buy on TCGplayerBuried Alive
Sorcery
LegalRank #370
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Why is this card good?
Buried Alive is one of the best enablers for graveyard-centric decks: a three-mana tutor that fetches three cards at once, straight into your yard. The catch is they must be creatures, and they end up in the graveyard — so this is only good when the graveyard is exactly where you want them.
It shines in:
- Reanimator decks (Meren, Chainer, Sefris) — dump a fatty plus value creatures, then cheat them back.
- Aristocrats — load up sacrifice fodder or creatures with death/graveyard triggers.
- Self-mill/graveyard payoffs like Muldrotha, Karador, or Gisa and Geralf, where bodies in the bin fuel your whole engine.
The efficiency is the draw: three precise selections for is far better than random milling when you need specific pieces (a reanimation target plus combo creatures).
Don't play it in decks lacking recursion — it's pure card disadvantage if you can't use the graveyard, and it whiffs entirely against grave hate. No bodies-back plan, no Buried Alive.
is far better than random milling when you need specific pieces (a reanimation target plus combo creatures).
Don't play it in decks lacking recursion — it's pure card disadvantage if you can't use the graveyard, and it whiffs entirely against grave hate. No bodies-back plan, no Buried Alive.Related cards
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