Tomb Blade

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Tomb Blade: Artifact Creature - Necron, Warhammer 40,000 Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{B}{B}
Mana value
6
Type
Artifact Creature - Necron
Colour identity
Black (B)
Power / toughness
5/4
Rarity
Rare
Set
Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)
Released
2022-10-07
Collector number
64
Artist
Darren Tan
Commander rank
16,462 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying, Unearth

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About Tomb Blade

Tomb Blade is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black artifact creature from Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K), a Commander product released in October 2022. It is collector number 64 in that set, with art by Darren Tan. It costs {4}{B}{B} (four generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/4 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Warhammer 40,000 Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.31 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Flying

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses life equal to the number of creatures they control unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Unearth {6}{B}{B}

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.31 (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 Tomb Blade by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Tomb Blade

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

PrintingRarityYear
Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) #64★Rare2022

Official rulings

Five official rulings apply to Tomb Blade, newest first.

  • Unearth grants haste to the permanent that's returned to the battlefield. However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that permanent. If that creature loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.
  • Activating a permanent card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting it as a spell. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Cancel) will not.
  • If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will resolve and do nothing.
  • At the beginning of the end step, a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the permanent will stay on the battlefield and the delayed trigger won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile it if it eventually leaves the battlefield.
  • If a permanent returned to the battlefield by an unearth ability would leave it for any reason, it's exiled instead-unless the spell or ability that's causing it to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it. In that case, the spell or ability succeeds at exiling the permanent. If the spell or ability later returns the card to the battlefield, it will return as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effect will no longer apply to it.

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