Tombstone Stairwell

World Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep (1)(Black)

At the beginning of each upkeep, if Tombstone Stairwell is in play, each player puts into play a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with haste named Tombspawn for each creature card in his or her graveyard.

At end of turn or when Tombstone Stairwell leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens put into play with it. They can't be regenerated.

Combos

• Solemnity + Tombstone Stairwell

Tokens

• Zombie 2/2 B w/ Haste

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

Coward_Token on Edge of Eternities Previews

1 month ago

Wooo, we can finally talk about Moonlit Meditation! Elsha, Threefold Master can make you bleed a bunch of mana rocks! Tombstone Stairwell makes a bunch of short-lived Sad Robots each turn!

What ideas do you have?

Coward_Token on shadow the hedgehog edh

1 month ago

Tombstone Stairwell, basically Grim Flowering with Shadow on the end of each turn

Coward_Token on The Reunion At Last - Sephiroth V1

3 months ago

Tombstone Stairwell, janky but produces death triggers each turn

hyalopterouslemur on Fun cards make fun decks

3 months ago

Tombstone Stairwell can be fun. Everyone likes extra tokens. You can use entry and death triggers (Think Blood Artist and Suture Priest.) to break the symmetry. But it has cumulative upkeep, so it won't be on the board for long.

Monkey Cage is just fun. It's really great with Living Death or Rise of the Dark Realms since the Cage is worded such that it sees all the creatures enter and triggers to all of them (meaning if a creature which costs {1}{U}, a creature which costs {B}{B}{B}, and a creature which costs {W} enter at the same time, you get six tokens.), but even Smile at Death or Victimize nets you two creatures (and tokens equal to their total mana value). Plus, it's a fun creature type with a little bit of unpredictability.

MagicMizz on Varina: Unalive in 2025

5 months ago

SaberTech yea we will see. Its pretty consistent when im goldfishing.

And like you said, I have alot of smaller zombies that I like to curve into varina.

In this deck, I generally want as many creatures in the yard as I can get for things like Tombstone Stairwell and my creature count is so high that I almost always get to discard alot of them and make more zombies to swing with Bone Miser.

We will see how it works when I actually play at a table. I'll let you know when I do.

FAIRxPOTAMUS on A Ghoulcallers Dream

1 year ago

BrianStacks nice! Thanks for the tip. I’ve come up with some crazy numbers for how many zombies I can create. I appreciate the help getting that higher. My only regret right now with this deck is I don’t have a way to actually return something from the grave like Gravepurge but I’m debating if I need that. I feel like relying more on the tokens so Tombstone Stairwell is a great suggestion. I could switch a two cost with this and throw in Dark Ritual or something to ramp. What is your opinion?

Basshunter on Death by Tokens

1 year ago

Go on with your work here and youll habe a nice deck. Please think about Tombstone Stairwell, this card is super strong here. If there are like 5-10 creatures in all graveyards, you will make 5-10 creatures every round, not just yours. And you can keep your token while everybody else sacrifice them. This card is an absolute wincon in here.

I even think you cutted too many payoff/aristocrats cards like Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist or Blood Seeker. The Meathook Massacre will do good work aswell, you can even swap for a boardwipe.

There are too many token creators in here without a strong impact

Basshunter on Death by Tokens

1 year ago

Hi, imo you need more token creators that create tokens for everyone or for your enemies. You dont need tokens for your own...think about cards like Forbidden Orchard, Hunted Horror, Slaughter Specialist, Curse of Disturbance, Tombstone Stairwell, Clackbridge Troll, Infernal Genesis, Hunted Lammasu, Tribute to Horobi  ^Flip, Shadrix Silverquill You should cut cards like Ophiomancer, Skrelv's Hive or Bitterblossom