Graveyard

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The graveyard is one of the six main zones in the game of Magic: The Gathering. It is the pile into which you discard, where instant and sorcery spells go once they have resolved, and where permanents go when they have been sacrificed, destroyed, or put into the graveyard due to a state-based effect.

Cards in the graveyard are usually no longer relevant to the game, but some decks such as reanimator are built to use or re-use cards in the graveyard, often making it as useful a resource as a player's hand. Also, the threshold mechanic makes use of the graveyard and the number of cards in it. Several cards relied on the order of cards in a graveyard (i.e. Ashen Ghoul), "Volrath's Shapeshifter from Stronghold was the last card printed that referred to the graveyard being in a specific order".^[1]

From the Comprehensive Rules 217.4. Graveyard 217.4a A graveyard is a discard pile. Any object that’s countered, discarded, destroyed, or sacrificed is put on top of its owner’s graveyard, as is any instant or sorcery spell that’s finished resolving. Each player’s graveyard starts out empty. 217.4b Each graveyard is kept in a single face-up pile. A player can examine the cards in any graveyard at any time but can’t change their order. 217.4c If an effect or rule puts two or more cards into the same graveyard at the same time, the owner of those cards may arrange them in any order.

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