Cemetery Gatekeeper

Creature — Vampire

First strike

When this enters the battlefield, exile a card from a graveyard.

Whenever a player plays a land or casts a spell, if it shares a card type with the exiled card, this deals 2 damage to that player. (This is a linked ability, linked to the ability in the second paragraph on the card named "Cemetery Gatekeeper". This only deals damage if the played card shares a card type with the exiled card that was exiled via the ability in the second paragraph.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (10)

DarkKiridon on Eternal Vampires II

4 months ago

Stromkirk Captain, Dusk Legion Zealot, or Cemetery Gatekeeper over Sanguinary Mage. Also Vampire of the Dire Moon is good too. Henrika Domnathi  ^Flip might fit in here. Your mana base is weird, but that's just my opinion. :)

Fatal Push, Infernal Grasp, Cast Down, Terminate, Dreadbore for other removal suggestions.

YamishiTheWickedOne on What is a Man? (a hyper aggro Edgar Markov EDH)

5 months ago

Vessiliana since you've become my go-to person for bouncing ideas off of, if I want to include Phyrexian Altar and Cemetery Gatekeeper what would you cut?

SufferFromEDHD on A Solid 4/10

1 year ago

Cemetery Gatekeeper and/or Cemetery Protector saw these in my collection. Simple exile effect that creates long term value.

Eternal Scourge this has serious potential.

Pull from Eternity this isn't a graveyard matters deck but saving a card from exile might be useful.

Barbarian_Sun_Pope on

1 year ago

Yeah Cemetery Gatekeeper is definitely the odd one out here since he doesn't enable anything. Big Game Hunter or Shambling Ghast could be a decent replacement. The hunter is additional removal for anything that might be bigger than your bigger creatures and the Ghast could offset the land lost from the second room in the Tomb.

jdogz32 on

1 year ago

Barbarian_Sun_Pope I like the suggestion of Kalain, Reclusive Painter I never even considered trying to utilize the right side of the Tomb of annihilation.im not so sure about Wily Goblin because of its double red cost. I was thinking about taking out Cemetery Gatekeeper because I don't think he really fits with what I'm attempting to do here.

Optimator on Anarchy Burger

2 years ago

Cemetery Gatekeeper would be good

Gorbah on Bloodline of an Ancient Coven

2 years ago

Evening YamishiTheWickedOne

Bloodghast actually never shined for me the way i expected it.. Slotted this vamp for a long time but never had the value of him returning him to the battlefield over and over with landdrops.. The game never lasts that long enough. So i decided to cut him for (in my opinion) a better vamp like Cemetery Gatekeeper or Welcoming Vampire

Thanks for sharing your thoughts ! Highly appreciated ! I took the time to look at your Markov brew and it gets my seal of approval to! Good luck on the blood sucking ^^

Cheers and Happy Newyear

YamishiTheWickedOne on Bloodline of an Ancient Coven

2 years ago

Looks very nice but I'm kinda surprised you decided to cut Bloodghast. Cemetery Gatekeeper and Welcoming Vampire are very, VERY nice, and outside of EDH I think people sleep on them. There's a few higher mana vampires who I think are viable but only as a Sorin drop.

have you considered Tainted Pact? I've been using it, I like it. Just dig until you hit a card you want.

For what it's worth, this gets my seal of approval.