Card
Buried Alive
Mana cost {2}{B}
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Part of 7 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · WTH · #63
- Cheapest printing
- €1.33
- EDHREC salt
- 0.72
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — counts toward 2 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 2 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B2 Core — counts toward 2 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 2 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B3 Upgraded — counts toward 4 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 4 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Nonland tutor, two at most in brackets 1–2 and four in bracket 3 (Lotus Vault house cap)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
7 known combos.
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Buried Alive + Reanimate + Chainer, Dementia Master + Viscera Seer + Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Buried Alive + Animate Dead + Chainer, Dementia Master + Viscera Seer + Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Buried Alive + Necromancy + Chainer, Dementia Master + Viscera Seer + Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
You can look in your library and then choose to find any number from zero to three creatures after you look at it.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast