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Grave Sifter

Card Name

Grave Sifter

Mana Cost

5

Type

Creature – Elemental Beast

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

When Grave Sifter enters the battlefield, each player chooses a creature type and returns any number of cards of that type from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Flavor Text

It claws at the earth in a vain attempt to reclaim what it once was.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(11/7/2014)
The creature type each player chooses applies only to that player. For example, if another player chose Elf, you wouldn't return Elf cards to your hand unless you also chose Elf (or if an Elf card in your graveyard also had the creature type you chose).