Abandoned Sarcophagus

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Abandoned Sarcophagus: Artifact, Commander 2020. You may cast spells that have a cycling ability from your graveyard. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{3}
Mana value
3
Type
Artifact
Colour identity
Colourless
Rarity
Rare
Set
Commander 2020 (C20)
Released
2020-04-17
Collector number
236
Artist
Daarken
Commander rank
13,188 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Abandoned Sarcophagus

Abandoned Sarcophagus is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from Commander 2020 (C20), a Commander product released in April 2020. It is collector number 236 in that set, with art by Daarken. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Hour of Devastation (2017) to Amonkhet Remastered (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.29 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

You may cast spells that have a cycling ability from your graveyard.

If a card that has a cycling ability would be put into your graveyard from anywhere and it wasn't cycled, exile it instead.

Although long since dead, the banished dissenters finally took their vengeance.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Abandoned Sarcophagus by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Abandoned Sarcophagus

Abandoned Sarcophagus has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Amonkhet Remastered (AKR) #268Rare2020
Hour of Devastation (HOU) #158Rare2017
Hour of Devastation Promos (PHOU) #158sRare2017

Official rulings

Four official rulings apply to Abandoned Sarcophagus, newest first.

  • If you cycle an instant card, you may cast it from your graveyard right away before any player may take any other action. If you do, that spell will resolve before the cycling ability. If you cycle a noninstant card without flash, you can't cast it until after the cycling ability has resolved.
  • Abandoned Sarcophagus doesn't grant you permission to do anything with those cards except cast them. For example, you can't cycle nonland cards with cycling from your graveyard.
  • A token permanent with cycling will go to your graveyard before ceasing to exist. It won't be exiled. Similarly, a nontoken permanent that lost cycling while it was on the battlefield will also go to your graveyard.
  • Certain older cards have variants of cycling, such as basic landcycling or Wizardcycling. Abandoned Sarcophagus's effect lets you cast these cards and exiles them if they weren't discarded for their cycling variant's ability.

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