Cemetery Gatekeeper
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Vampire
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 1
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow Promos #148s (mythic)
First strike
When this creature enters, 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 creature deals 2 damage to that player.
Cemetery Gatekeeper has 5 printings, first in Innistrad: Crimson Vow (2021). EDHREC ranks it #7,809 among Commander cards. It appears most in Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls decks (4,577 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Cemetery Gatekeeper most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls: 4,577 decks
- Zo-Zu the Punisher: 1,536 decks
- Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power: 942 decks
- Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence: 736 decks
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell: 492 decks
- Solphim, Mayhem Dominus: 477 decks
- Daredevil, Fearless Fighter: 410 decks
- Matoc, Lavamancer: 147 decks
Often played with Cemetery Gatekeeper
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Card types that can be exiled from a graveyard include artifact, creature, enchantment, land, planeswalker, instant, and sorcery. Legendary, basic, and snow are supertypes, not card types. Human, Equipment, and Aura are subtypes, not card types.