If you’re looking for a way to get cards into your graveyard, whether they’re creatures, instants, lands, or any kind of Magic: The Gathering card, we’ve got a list of what you need.
There are dozens of ways to get cards into your graveyard, such as cards that tutor cards to graveyards, loot or rummage effects, mill cards, surveil, dredge, and discard effects.
Depending on the type of deck you are building, be it reanimator or otherwise, you may want to run each of these kinds of cards. While Black is traditionally the best at getting cards into the graveyard from a color perspective, there are cards that do this well in virtually every color (although White tends to fall short).
Here’s a helpful list of the best ways in MTG to get cards into your graveyard for Commander or any format:
Best MTG Cards That Tutor to Graveyard

The most powerful way to get cards into your graveyard is to tutor them there directly. Entomb is the #1 card to achieve this, followed by Buried Alive for creatures.
- Buried Alive
- Burning-Rune Demon
- Corpse Connoisseur
- Disciple’s of Gix
- Entomb
- Final Parting
- Goblin Engineer
- Gravebreaker Lamia
- Iname, Death Aspect
- Increasing Ambition
- Intuition
- Jarad’s Orders
- Life’s Finale
- Oriq Loremage
- Unmarked Grave
- Vile Entomber
Best MTG Cards With Loot/Rummage Effects

Loot and Rummage effects are also powerful ways to get cards into your graveyard. They help you dig through your deck faster, and the discard effect ends up being a plus rather than a negative. There are also some cards like Survival of the Fittest that reward you with a tutor effect for discarding.
- Anje Falkenrath
- Anvil of Bogardan
- Blood for the Blood God!
- Careful Consideration
- Careful Study
- Cathartic Reunion
- Chart a Course
- Compulsive Research
- Dark Deal
- Desolate Lighthouse
- Fable of the Mirror-Breaker / Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
- Faithless Looting
- Fauna Shaman
- Frantic Search
- Geier Reach Sanitarium
- Greater Good
- Ideas Unbound
- Imposing Grandeur
- Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy / Jace, Telepath Unbound
- Kitsa, Otterball Elite
- Ledger Shredder
- Likeness Looter
- Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
- Matzalantli, the Great Door / The Core
- Millikin
- Path of the Pyromancer
- Prismari Command
- Raffine, Scheming Seer
- Rain of Revelation
- Reforge the Soul
- Rona, Herald of Invasion / Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
- Seasoned Pyromancer
- Smuggler’s Copter
- Spymaster’s Vault
- Survival of the Fittest
- Teferi, Master of Time
- Thirst for Discovery
- Thirst for Knowledge
- Thirst for Meaning
- Underrealm Lich
- Wheel of Fortune
- Wheel of Misfortune
- Windfall
Best MTG Cards That Self-Mill, Surveil, or Dredge

If you want to get a lot of cards into your graveyard, presumably for a payoff like Patriarch’s Bidding, cards such as Doom Whisperer or Traumatize can mill almost your entire deck.
- Angel of Suffering
- Attunement
- Blossoming Tortoise
- Bramble Familiar
- Breach the Multiverse
- Cephalid Vandal
- Consider
- Darkblast
- Deranged Assistant
- Doom Whisperer
- Dragon’s Rage Channeler
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch
- Golgari Grave-Troll
- Golgari Thug
- Hermit Druid
- Incarnation Technique
- Life from the Loam
- Mental Note
- Mesmeric Orb
- Mire Triton
- Pile On
- Search For Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
- Stitcher’s Supplier
- Stinkweed Imp
- Thought Scour
- Traumatize
- Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
- Whispering Madness
- Wrenn and Realmbreaker
Best MTG Cards With Discard Effects

Finally, we have cards that provide abilities in exchange for discarding, other than drawing. These include mana generators such as Skirge Familiar or Bog Witch.
- Bog Witch
- Forbid
- Insidious Dreams
- Key to the City
- Lion’s Eye Diamond
- Nahiri’s Wrath
- Skirge Familiar
- Tortured Existence
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
That’s it for our list of the best ways in MTG to get cards into your graveyard for Commander, EDH, or any eternal format! If you enjoyed this list, you might also be interested in reading The Best Black Tutors in Commander.
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