Yawgmoth's Day Planner
Mana Cost:
Type: Artifact
Oracle Text:
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add {B}{B}.
You may cast spells from your graveyard. Only mana produced by abilities that caused you to lose life may be spent to cast spells this way. (Damage causes loss of life.)
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Mystery Booster 2
Price ( USD): $0.72
USD: $0.72
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Character Background
Yawgmoth's Day Planner is an artifact that fuels a value/combo engine: it converts two life into BB repeatedly and uniquely lets you cast spells from your graveyard, but it simultaneously exiles anything that would enter the graveyard thereafter. That asymmetry prizes one-shot recursion of pre-stocked bombs over ongoing graveyard shenanigans, so build toward a value/combo plan rather than aggro. Practical construction: use tutors and discard/entomb effects (Entomb, Faithless Looting, Stitcher's Supplier) to put key targets — e.g., Griselbrand or a one-off removal or a combo piece — into your yard before you resolve the Planner, then tap/pay life to recast them. Include ways to stabilize or leverage life loss (life gain or cards that care about losing life) and avoid dredge/reanimator decks that rely on refilling the yard, since Planner will exile cards instead. The card also doubles as a ramp/source of black pips for midrange control or combo turns; sequence and resource accounting are everything.
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