The Grim Captain's Locker

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The Grim Captain's Locker: Legendary Artifact, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander. Tap: Surveil 1. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{3}{B}
Mana value
4
Type
Legendary Artifact
Colour identity
Black (B)
Rarity
Rare
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Released
2023-11-17
Collector number
82
Artist
Bruce Brenneise
Commander rank
9,636 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Surveil

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About The Grim Captain's Locker

The Grim Captain's Locker is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black legendary artifact from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC), a Commander product released in November 2023. It is collector number 82 in that set, with art by Bruce Brenneise. It costs {3}{B} (three generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.28 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

{T}: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape-{3}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.28 (as of 2026-11-12).

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

Format legality

Legality of The Grim Captain's Locker by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of The Grim Captain's Locker

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) #50Rare2023

Official rulings

Five official rulings apply to The Grim Captain's Locker, newest first.

  • If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those.
  • Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.
  • Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.
  • If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.

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