Tormod's Crypt

Artifact

{T}, Sacrifice this: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

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
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

lachrymal on Infect (Budget, Modern, Mono-Green)

1 week ago

2017 Playtest Notes:

Game 1

Lost 1-2 against Naya Burn. Consider: Witchbane Orb, Leyline of Sanctity, Collected Company, Feed the Clan, Spellskite, Bow of Nylea, Scavenging Ooze, Obstinate Baloth, Dryad Militant

Game 2

Lost 0-2 against Grixis Death's Shadow. Consider: Fog, Invigorate, Hornet Sting, Hurricane, Squall Line, Tormod's Crypt, Ground Seal, Staff of Nin, Collected Company, Autumn's Veil, Feed the Clan, Scavenging Ooze, Obstinate Baloth, Dryad Militant

Game 3

Lost 0-1 against Affinity. Consider:

heckproof on Storm if it didn't suck (Ruby Storm)

1 month ago

Cloudy2024 Appreciate the kind words! The reason why I haven't been running cards like Tormod's Crypt or the like in the sideboard is that this deck's strategy versus graveyard decks is just to be faster. I am still playing around with the sideboard and may try it out, but for any non-combo graveyard deck, your gameplan should be to storm off turn 3. Even for other combo decks, the best strategy is to race them to the combo rather than trying to slow them down, because that slows you down as well.

Balaam__ on Heart of Darkness Challenge - Pt. II - Yarok

2 months ago

That should cover most of the usual graveyard hate. Tormod's Crypt, Rest in Peace, Relic of Progenitus and Grafdigger's Cage all fall under that umbrella of removal. You’re going to have to watch out for the subtle graveyard hate, the kind attached to creatures as some sort of activated ability or tertiary effect. Those can fall outside the jurisdiction of simple artifact/enchantment hate.

Cloudy2024 on Storm if it didn't suck (Ruby Storm)

3 months ago

Awesome deck, perhaps use Tormod's Crypt as graveyard hate in the sideboard.

Flarhoon13 on Blim's Blumpkins

4 months ago

Finally!!! Lost one, won one yesterday evening! Let's talk about the win. I attacked turn 4 with Blim, Comedic Genius, gifting Francois, on Gyrus, Waker of Corpses, an Oni Possession. Blim, Comedic Genius never attacked again, even though I cast him for 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 mana. Later in the game, I cast a Sorcerous Spyglass and found an infinite combo in Aubrey's large grip... Exquisite Blood and Enduring Tenacity. Seeing that, I decided not to name Francois' Chainsaw nor his Lightning Greaves. Instead, I named Blighted Fen, which never seemed to matter.

Francois used Gyrus, Waker of Corpses to kill Aubrey, sending exactly enough to get 5 damage through, past his only creature, Athreos, God of Passage. I had a Tormod's Crypt out but never used it.

On my penultimate turn, at 6 life, I cast a Nefarious Lich and a Chain Reaction, taking out Tendershoot Dryad and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride. I had about 9 cards in the yard, including AEther Flash, which had killed a Blood Artist and did a lot of work this game. A Demonic Collusion had found me a Blasphemous Act, which eventually took out Aubrey's Valgavoth, Terror Eater and several other blockers to allow Francois' kill shot on him. Auren was able to kill Francois. Auren passed turn to me while he was tapped out at 1 life with 5 tapped food, Night of the Sweets' Revenge in his graveyard, and his commander, Ygra, Eater of All making all creatures into delicious morsels. I made the ultimate top deck: Greed's Gambit. This allowed me to draw 9 cards with Nefarious Lich out. Among those nine was a Dark Petition which found me an Earthquake for the win. Finally!! Earthquake for 3 finally was enough to win the game.

Andramalech on Dig Hard with a Vengeance

4 months ago

Balaam__ it's nice to see you posting a list like this! Seems like something I could potentially use. Very cool, middle-of-the-road kinda deck mechanically, but the idea behind it? Incredible. I agree with capwner that something like Seasoned Pyromancer would be extra useful for you. kamarupa makes a really great point that a few cards like Meltdown, Abrade (can't remember if that's the artifact one), etc. that one-off target an artifact. Some instant-speed removal pieces would help defend against your worst matchups with Leyline of the Void, Tormod's Crypt, and other grave-hating decks. Speeding up your process with cards like Flare of Cultivation might really make that an unexpected victory!

wallisface on Graveyard Removal Rocks Survey

4 months ago

Each option has it's own strengths and weaknesses which need to be considered - they're each meta dependent, as well as dependent on the kind of deck you yourself are running

• Relic of Progenitus is probably the strongest card here, but can be really unideal if your own deck is wanting to use its graveyard, as Relic removes your own grave as well. Generally I'll generally only consider the other options below when Relic feels too self-damaging. It's also worth noting that Relic requires a mana to perform its mass-exile, so prefers your deck to be able to easily leave mana up.

• Soul-Guide Lantern is imo a generally worse Relic of Progenitus, but can be a better option for protecting your own graveyard. Not requiring a mana for exile will also sometimes help with decks tighter on mana. Its ETB seems interesting but I haven't found it particularly relevant most of the time, particularly as an Urza's Saga fetch target.

• Tormod's Crypt is the bare-bones graveyard hate, as it costs no mana but comes with no benefits. Its probably only worth considering for decks that are extremely tight on mana (aggro), or decks with high artifact-count-relevance (affinity). Generally I think it would be super hard to justify using this as an Urza's Saga fetch.

• Nihil Spellbomb is a stronger Soul-Guide Lantern if your deck has the ability to pay the {B}.

• Ghost Vacuum is interesting but generally wants to only be played in a deck that has decent-odds of making a game go long (if you're unlikely to ever trigger its {6} mana ability, you're better off just using Relic of Progenitus)

• Grafdigger's Cage hits a very specific range of strategies, while doing nothing for other plans, so is super meta reliant.

capwner on Graveyard Removal Rocks Survey

4 months ago

I'm curious especially for you Modern players, which is the best / your favorite {1} or {0}-drop piece of GRAVEYARD HATE to include in an Urza's Saga package?

To me it seems the contenders are...

Relic of Progenitus

Soul-Guide Lantern

Tormod's Crypt

Nihil Spellbomb

Ghost Vacuum

Grafdigger's Cage

Personally I have really been liking Ghost Vacuum for the repeatability, and the 2nd ability's effectiveness against cards like Phlage and Abhorrent Oculus, though it is weaker against decks such as delirium which rely more on a mass of cards in the graveyard vs. specific ones.

Are there any classic graveyard removal rocks I am missing? Which is your favorite and why?