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Gate to the Afterlife
Oracle Text
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Gate to the Afterlife is a classic setup piece for a graveyard combo-value deck, trading the slow inevitability of artifact setup for the promise of a sudden power spike. Its first trigger rewards any nontoken creature death with a small life cushion and optional looting, which means it smooths draws while stocking the graveyard with exactly the bodies its second ability wants. In practice, this is best in sacrifice, midrange, or self-mill shells that can reliably get six creature cards into the graveyard and then convert that threshold into God-Pharaoh’s Gift. Cards that replace themselves on death, token producers, and repeatable sacrifice outlets all help, especially cheap creatures like Stitcher’s Supplier or value creatures with enters-the-battlefield effects. The looting is optional, so you can preserve key cards when needed, but when digging for the Gift, it becomes a real engine that turns attrition into a looming resurrection.
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Character Background
Gate to the Afterlife is a classic setup piece for a graveyard combo-value deck, trading the slow inevitability of artifact setup for the promise of a sudden power spike. Its first trigger rewards any nontoken creature death with a small life cushion and optional looting, which means it smooths draws while stocking the graveyard with exactly the bodies its second ability wants. In practice, this is best in sacrifice, midrange, or self-mill shells that can reliably get six creature cards into the graveyard and then convert that threshold into God-Pharaoh’s Gift. Cards that replace themselves on death, token producers, and repeatable sacrifice outlets all help, especially cheap creatures like Stitcher’s Supplier or value creatures with enters-the-battlefield effects. The looting is optional, so you can preserve key cards when needed, but when digging for the Gift, it becomes a real engine that turns attrition into a looming resurrection.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-09-05 14:40:42 UTC