Best Magic: The Gathering cards to exile graveyards

Explore the most effective Magic: The Gathering cards for exiling graveyards, a crucial strategy to counter decks that rely on this zone. Discover powerful "graveyard hate" options that will allow you to eliminate threats and control the game. This selection is ideal for players looking to strengthen their decks against reanimator strategies or any other that abuses the graveyard. Find the best cards to permanently exile your opponents' cards, ensuring a decisive advantage in your games.

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    Relic of Progenitus (Artifact, Colorless)

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    Relic is a highly versatile and efficient graveyard hate piece. It offers both continuous targeted removal and a powerful mass exile effect, making it relevant at any stage of the game.

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    Graveyard Trespasser / Graveyard Glutton

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    Graveyard Trespasser is highly efficient, providing incidental graveyard hate while also being a strong threat on its own. Its ward ability makes it resilient, and its transformation offers additional pressure and incidental lifegain.

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    Leyline of the Void (Enchantment, Black)

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    This card is a formidable deterrent against graveyard strategies, especially when it starts on the battlefield. It completely shuts down opponents' graveyards from the outset of the game.

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    Scavenging Ooze (Creature, Green)

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    Scavenging Ooze is a highly efficient and repeatable source of graveyard hate that also grows into a significant threat and provides lifegain. It's a Constructed staple for its versatility and value.

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    Endurance

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    Endurance provides instant-speed graveyard disruption, shuffling a graveyard back into the library, which can be crucial against reanimation or "Underworld Breach" strategies. Its flash and alternate casting cost make it a flexible and powerful tool.

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    Unlicensed Hearse (Artifact, Colorless)

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    Unlicensed Hearse is a powerful and repeatable source of graveyard hate that also becomes a significant threat in the late game. Its ability to exile cards at instant speed without additional mana costs makes it highly efficient.

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    Bojuka Bog (Land, Black)

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    Bojuka Bog is a "free" piece of graveyard hate in many black decks, particularly in Commander. As a land, it doesn't take up a spell slot and can be tutored for, providing instant-speed mass exile.

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    Tormod's Crypt

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    Tormod's Crypt is one of the fastest and cheapest graveyard hate options available. Its zero-mana cost allows for immediate disruption, making it excellent against explosive graveyard strategies.

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    Soul-Guide Lantern (Artifact, Colorless)

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    Soul-Guide Lantern offers flexible graveyard exile, allowing you to either target a single card for value or wipe all opponents' graveyards. Its low cost and versatility make it a popular choice.

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    Nihil Spellbomb

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    Similar to Tormod's Crypt, Nihil Spellbomb provides cheap and effective targeted graveyard exile. The added benefit of drawing a card if you have a black permanent makes it a strong option in black decks.

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    Scavenger Grounds

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    As a land, Scavenger Grounds provides a flexible and hard-to-remove source of mass graveyard exile. It's a great utility land that can be included in any deck.

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    Ashiok, Dream Render

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    Ashiok offers a powerful combination of graveyard hate and anti-tutor effects. Its ability to mill and then exile a graveyard is very strong, and its passive ability can severely disrupt many strategies.