Buried Alive

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle your library.

Combos

• Alesha, Who Smiles at Death + Buried Alive

Legality

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

Discussion (51)

Spirits on Kaalia, Mirror Breaker EDH

1 month ago

matvone,

Agreed the Entomb + Animate Dead ({1}{B}{B}) is less mana intensive than the Buried Alive + Reanimate ({2}{B}{B}). It's much higher risk for sure, I thought about just using the Leonin Relic-Warder instead, but the extra mana slowed it down.

Gisela, Blade of Goldnight is a good pull out, along with Avacyn, Angel of Hope were both out from 2020-2024 but I decided to add a combat damage line back in, there both unnecessary angels in here.

Bogardan Hellkite lived in this deck forever, until the Orcish Bowmasters was printed, but it is a great alternative if the focus is the Worldgorger Dragon lines.

Red Dragon does the damage, but it doesn't have Flash so it's not really effective like Orcish Bowmasters or Bogardan Hellkite. Recruiter of the Guard and Imperial Recruiter are also great for finding the Orcish Bowmasters with the combo.

Love Kaalia combo, very cool matvone.

Balaam__ on Balaam__

4 months ago

@legendofa I’m back with some more from a few sets.

•Brilliant Plan

•Dwindle

•Gravewaker

•Reclamation Sage

•Rogue's Gloves

•Transmogrifying Wand

•Silent Dart might qualify. The angle is a bit strange, but technically possible.

•Whispering Snitch

•Carrion Imp could be feasible from that angle.

•Mirror March

•Ragefire

•Tome of the Guildpact

•Buried Alive

•Mystic Retrieval

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These I’m not sure about.

•Staunch-Hearted Warrior

•Entomb

•Dawn Charm At first I thought yes, then realized the hand position is opposite what it needs to be. We should see the person to whom those hands belong, yet we don’t. Maybe they’re reaching high into the air or something.

•Gruesome Menagerie I don’t think the zombie’s head is above ground and looking at his hand, I think only the hand burst out.

•Sigiled Sword of Valeron I don’t think it’s from the viewpoint of the guy holding the sword.

•Naturalize same as above.

•Magistrate's Scepter again, same as above.

I forgot to check against your list, so please ignore duplicates.

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I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I tried my hand at building my first Pioneer format deck, and ran into a confusing issue. Idk the cardpool so I’ve been relying on various sources to check legality. One app said Cavern of Souls is legal so I added it, but that flagged the deck as Illegal. I checked a different source and it said it was legal, then another said no, and so forth. Do you know for certain whether it’s legal or not?

Fluggleshmuggits on Cube Eternal

4 months ago

OUT
Memory Lapse
Bazaar Trademage
Nekrataal
Sidisi, Undead Vizier
Sinkhole
Cathartic Reunion
Thrashing Brontodon
Veil of Summer
Harmonize
Coiling Oracle
Burning-Tree Emissary
Sorcerous Spyglass

IN
Ninja of the Deep Hours
Brainsurge
Changeling Outcast
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
Buried Alive
Seasoned Pyromancer
Loot, Exuberant Explorer
Elvish Reclaimer
Up the Beanstalk
Nadu, Winged Wisdom
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine

casual_competitive on 2nd Crusade

4 months ago

you might want to add more lands and if youre going to have Wonder and Filth you definitely should add Buried Alive

multimedia on Zombies.

5 months ago

I didn't see Ayara, First of Locthwain in your deck at first. Ayara + Soultrader + Gravecrawler is an all creature infinite wincon combo that Buried Alive can put into your graveyard and Victimize can reanimate Ayara + Soultrader, it doesn't matter if they ETB tapped.

multimedia on Zombies.

5 months ago

Hey, Gisa only having one haste source here makes her really slow to get going, if at all. Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Lavaspur Boots, consider maxing out on these haste sources? If you already control one then have more ways to discard away the others Collector's Vault, Putrid Imp?

There's some 2 drop mana rocks/cost reduction you could add to increase ramp Mind Stone/Jet Medallion, but I think you would be better off using these deck spots to improve potential early game reanimation. You have some reanimation, but what I don't see here are effects that can get Zombies into your graveyard to reanimate before you get Gisa as a sac outlet.

Collector's Vault, Diresight, Entomb, Unmarked Grave, Buried Alive, Lively Dirge, Putrid Imp these are spells you could potentially cast long before you control Gisa. Getting some cards into your graveyard a little faster helps Stitch Together's threshold. Can even play more potential early game draw Night's Whisper/Sign in Blood to get more than 7 cards in hand which then you can at your Cleanup step discard down to 7 cards as free discard to setup reanimation. If you're discarding creatures to reanimate then consider increasing lower mana cost reanimation Reanimate, Animate Dead, Persist, Necromancy?

Consider adding an earlier game reanimation plan to get Grave Titan onto the battlefield? Titan being a repeatable Zombie token source can hold down the fort until you get Gisa going. In the meantime, Titan could do damage to opponents. Archon of Cruelty also isn't a Zombie, but is an excellent reanimation target, who if you can control it in the earlier game can give you a huge advantage. When your Commander can create creature tokens and with Grave Titan, Altar of Bhaal is powerful repeatable reanimation when you have creature tokens to exile.

I hope this advice was helpful and if you're interested I offer more advice about what cards to consider cutting.

Balaam__ on Balaam__

5 months ago

Found some more for your FPP deck legendofa.

Definites:

•Uphill Battle

•Seal of Doom

•Troll-Horn Cameo

•Manacles of Decay

•Afflict

•Buried Alive

•Last Rites

•Skeletal Scrying

Questionable:

•Arrest view might not be from the spearholder’s perspective. Tough call.

•Magistrate's Scepter hands coming from off screen, but separate perspective.

•Shoving Match might be from the viewpoint of the falling man; maybe not.

•Mind Swords definitely first person, but the hands aren’t coming in from out of frame.

•Seal of Cleansing, Seal of Fire, Seal of Removal and Seal of Strength all are a bit too far off center to be first person I think, but they’re all very similar to Seal of Doom which does feel FPP. Not sure if you want to add them for consistency’s sake.

•Angel of Mercy unsure if it’s the perspective of whatever’s getting killed or not.

•Urborg Emissary not sure if it’s the lizard’s perspective or not.

•Harsh Judgment I think this qualifies due to the sword in the bottom right clearly not belonging to the soldier with the shield on the same side. I think we’re seeing this from the viewpoint of whoever is holding that sword closest to the camera.

•Tigereye Cameo same deal as the seals mentioned above. The angle is off, but some of the other cameos do qualify.

•Magma Burst we might be seeing things from the point of view of that poor unfortunate dinosaur.

•Darigaaz's Charm, Crosis's Charm, Dromar's Charm, Rith's Charm and Treva's Charm are all ‘maybe but not quite’ perspectives.

Hybrow on Looting for Gold and Riches

8 months ago

I am not saying I dont like her, I havent broken the deck down and she is fun to play every once and a while. I just find that the way i build her focuses on stuff like Buried Alive and Entomb to get those key creatures into my grave and then recurr them a ton.

Yours is slightly different (better) than mine, I basically only have her doing damage, no other Cutthroat types, which is probably part of my problem, lol

I am suprised that you dont have Plague of Vermin its a wincon with her on the board. Is high CMC, but I have won games with it.