What Card Sends Cards to the Graveyard?
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The Magical Merchant card is one of the cards that sends cards to the gravesyard, as it excavates cards from the top of your deck to the graveyard until you get a spell/trap card, and Foolish Burial Goods is a new Normal Spell that can fit into a ton of different strategies, sending a Spell or Trap Card from your Deck straight to the Graveyard. Needlebug Nest can also send 5 cards from the top of your deck to the Graveyard, and Naturia Rock can be Special Summoned when a Trap Card is activated by sending 1 card from the top of your deck to the Graveyard.
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General Questions
- What spell card sends cards to graveyard?: Foolish Burial Goods is a new Normal Spell that can fit into a ton of different strategies, sending a Spell or Trap Card from your Deck straight to the Graveyard.
- What cards send cards to graveyard duel links?: Needlebug Nest can send 5 cards from the top of your deck to the Graveyard, and Naturia Rock can be Special Summoned when a Trap Card is activated by sending 1 card from the top of your deck to the Graveyard.
- What counts as sent to the graveyard?: Cards are sent to the Graveyard if they are destroyed, Tributed, discarded, or detached; most Spell and Trap Cards are also placed in the Graveyard after the Chain they were activated in resolves.
Card Types and Effects
- What are the card types in the graveyard?: The card types that could show up in your graveyard are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, battle, and tribal.
- Do conjured cards go to graveyard?: You might conjure to your hand, your library, your graveyard, or even directly to the battlefield, and once you do, the card is a full card for all rules purposes.
- Do token cards go to the graveyard?: Yes, tokens do go to the graveyard, and as a passive effect immediately cease to exist.
Destruction and Discard
- Is sending a card to the graveyard destroying it?: A card is destroyed when it is sent to the Graveyard due to battle between monsters or by an effect that destroys a card.
- Is discard the same as sent to the graveyard?: In summary, discarded cards are a subset of cards sent to the graveyard, all discarded cards are sent to the graveyard (unless otherwise stated) but not all cards sent to the graveyard are discarded, even if they were sent from the hand.
- Does tribute count as sent to the graveyard?: Tribute (Release in the OCG, formerly Sacrifice) is usually a way of voluntarily sending a card from the field to the Graveyard, often used to activate a card effect or perform a Summon.
Strategy and Ownership
- How do I send cards to the graveyard?: Tribute, destroy, discard, and detach are different ways of sending cards to Graveyard.
- What card is best to counter graveyard?: Valkyrie is your main melee area damage card, she can sweep away any ground swarms easily, making her extremely effective against Graveyard.
- Do you own cards in your graveyard?: The cards that aren’t either permanents or spells, such as cards in graveyards, in exile, in the hand, in the library etc., aren’t controlled by any player, however, each object has an owner.
Spell and Trap Cards
- What card destroys all spells?: 1 Heavy Storm has no activation requirement and can destroy all Spell and Trap Cards on the field.
- Do discarded cards go to graveyard magic?: Discard is an evergreen keyword action which takes cards from a player’s hand and puts them in their graveyard.
- Does discard count as dying?: Discard only ever applies to cards in hand – you cannot “discard” things on the battlefield or anywhere else, and “die” is a special word that’s not an action in and of itself, but describes a game state: something “dies” when it’s put into a graveyard from the battlefield.