Grave Venerations
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander #9 (rare)
- Price
- $0.36 USD
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Grave Venerations has 2 printings, first in Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (2026). EDHREC ranks it #3,987 among Commander cards. It appears most in Auntie Ool, Cursewretch decks (13,059 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Grave Venerations
- Blight Curse - Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander Deck, led by Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
Commanders that run Grave Venerations most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Auntie Ool, Cursewretch: 13,059 decks
- Queen Marchesa: 1,505 decks
- Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie: 1,406 decks
- Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel: 1,019 decks
- High Perfect Morcant: 991 decks
- Teysa Karlov: 838 decks
- Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight: 415 decks
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons: 344 decks
Often played with Grave Venerations
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If combat damage dealt to the monarch causes that player to lose the game, the triggered ability that causes the controller of the attacking creature to become the monarch doesn't resolve. In most cases, the controller of the attacking creature will still become the monarch as it is likely their turn.
- : There are two inherent triggered abilities associated with being the monarch. These triggered abilities have no source and are controlled by the player who was the monarch at the time the abilities triggered. The full texts of these abilities are "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card" and "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch."
- : If the monarch leaves the game during another player's turn, that player becomes the monarch. If the monarch leaves the game during their turn, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch.
- : If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card.
- : The game starts with no monarch. As a player becomes the monarch, the current monarch (if any) ceases being the monarch. There is never more than one monarch at a time.