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List of EDH Graveyard Hate

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Reasons for this list (with some examples to get hyped about):

  • Graveyard hate really sucks to have to put in your deck. Most players don't want to "waste" a slot for it so this list features cards that don't just hate the graveyard and so don't feel like as much of a waste. Some of these cards feel like win conditions in their own right, see Necromancer's Covenant
  • Graveyard hate is usually pretty boring, people who wouldn't normally put some in might do so now because they found some exciting options in this list! If you haven't been looking for an excuse to put Spellweaver Volute in a deck for years then you clearly have a problem...not me. I don't have a problem.
  • Because a little bit of graveyard hate can go a long way (with targeted reanimation being a thing) a lot more cards are viable than you might expect and people can easily choose the cards that have the most synergy/flavor with their deck as a result. Guiding Spirit for your spirit decks anyone?
  • There are a lot more exotic options than just exiling a graveyard to get cards out of it and people might not know/want to look for all of them. Mourner's Shield operates as graveyard hate but is also a potent anti-hexproof card because it doesn't target!
  • Maybe you're making an Eldrazi deck and removing from the graveyard is an easy way to get a ton of Eldrazi food! Night Soil is a good way to bounce cards in and out of the graveyard with Eldrazi for example.
  • Options are always good for those on a budget! Shred Memory is a cheap and effective way to tutor for something like...oh idk...Cyclonic Rift.

My goal here with this list is to show a wide diversity of graveyard hate so as to make the decision to include it as painless as possible at all levels of play, if not make it actually fun. While this list is geared towards helping more casual players with less consistent decks that can't just tutor for their Tormod's Crypt whenever they need to, it still has some utility to more competitive users just so they can see what options are out there.

With that in mind, I have a special priority here to include cards that hate on graveyards incidentally so they don't feel like as much of a "wasted" card slot. Things like Primal Command, Hedonist's Trove , and Day's Undoing have utility outside of just graveyard hate so they can be used to stop graveyard stuff sometimes but not that's not their only function Jund Charm and Rakdos Charm are perfect examples of this.

This is a WIP (obviously) so feel free to contribute! I was thinking about adding in things that would exile from your own graveyard to combat people using your graveyard & reanimation spells but then decided that would clutter the list too much. Just know that those kinds of effects can also be used to hate on decks that use graveyards (albeit temporarily in the case of reanimation).

If you liked this list, please upvote for others to see it and make suggestions. Also, if you feel so inclined, I'd love for people to check out my other EDH list:


List of EDH Political Cards

Commander / EDH* NewHorizons

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