MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #2

Call from the Grave

DIGITAL ONLY

past·#2·common·nonfoil

Illus. Quinton Hoover

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Apr 1997

29 yr ago

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Sorcery

Put a random creature from a random graveyard into play under your control. Call from the Grave deals to you an amount of damage equal to that creature's casting cost.

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duelnot legal

brawlnot legal

pennynot legal

PreDHnot legal

Rulings · 6

2024-11-08wotc

To choose a random creature from a random graveyard, first choose a random graveyard with at least one creature card in it. Then choose a random creature card from that graveyard.

2024-11-08wotc

For many playtest cards, you’ll need to make a generous assumption that basic game rules would be updated to allow them to work. The Mystery Booster 2 Playtest Card Notes section (reproduced here in individual Gatherer rulings) provides guidance for fitting these cards into the existing rules structure.

2024-11-08wotc

The choices of random creature and random graveyard are made as Call from the Grave resolves.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PAST — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #2 of *Astral Cards*, the set that shipped alongside the April 1997 Astral Cards release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {2}{B} (3 converted).

Illustrated by Quinton Hoover. Rarix catalogs 321 other cards credited to this artist.