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Wight of the Reliquary

Wight of the Reliquary

Mana Cost: {B}{G}

Type: Creature — Zombie Knight

Oracle Text:
Vigilance
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Power/Toughness: 2/2

Rarity: rare

Prints: View all prints (4) →

Expansion: Modern Horizons 3

Price ( USD): $0.91

USD: $0.91 · EUR: €1.38

Public Decks Using This Card

Witherbloom Pestilence (Secrets of Strixhaven Commander Precon Decklist) by Cardflippr · 1x · 100 cards

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Character Background

Wight of the Reliquary is a compact B/G value engine that reads like an undead knight whose reliquary is your compost pile: it grows with each creature card in your graveyard, puts up vigilance blocks, and doubles as a built‑in land tutor when you sacrifice another creature. It best supports midrange/value and aristocrats-style sacrifice decks that want incremental board presence and resilient mana access rather than pure aggro or control. Build around cheap graveyard fodder (Stitcher's Supplier, one-drops that die) and recurring threats (Unearth and other reanimation effects, plus Blood Artist as a payoff) so Wight both becomes a threatening attacker/blocker and converts bodies to lands on demand; remember the search puts lands into play tapped, so use the ability at end step or to fetch utility lands and color-fix midgame. A two-mana, vigilance land‑tutor that scales with your graveyard makes it a natural cornerpiece in Golgari value lists.

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