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Tombstone, Career Criminal

MSC · uncommon · Released 2026-06-26

Power

brawl
tier-2Niche payoff
commander
tier-2Niche payoff

Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).

Derived from the 7 atoms below.

over

above rate

incremental

minor value alone

build around

needs a shell

scales

scales up

rigid

one mode

broad

broadly useful

fragile

easily answered

Commander Bracket

1Precon2Core3Upgraded4Optimized5cEDH

Archetypes

positive:
reanimatorgraveyard-matterslegendary-matters
negative:

No active conflicts.

Roles

cost-reducer-triberecursion-instant-sorceryetb-trigger

Risks

requires-tribe-densitycommander-dependent

Mechanics

—

Typal

synergy:
villain
anti:

—

Structural

triggered-abilitystatic-ability

Rationale

3cmc 2/2 legendary — ETB returns a Villain card from graveyard to hand, and reduces the cost of all Villain spells by {1}. Tombstone is a narrow tribal support piece entirely dependent on Villain-subtype density, a creature type exclusive to crossover/IP sets with very limited card pool; outside a dedicated Villain tribal shell it is a vanilla 2/2 with no utility. Its cost-reduction and recursion roles are signature in any Villain-matters deck but that archetype is extremely niche.

Learnings (3)

  • Villain is a creature subtype introduced in crossover/IP sets (e.g. Marvel, DC); as of early 2026 the card pool of legal Villains is very small, making Tombstone's tribal payoffs weak unless more Villain cards are printed.

    tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6

  • Tombstone's ETB recursion returns a Villain card to hand (not battlefield), so it does not trigger ETBs on the returned creature — it is graveyard-to-hand, not reanimation.

    tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6

  • The cost reduction applies to Villain spells you cast, which can compound in a Villain-dense shell but is dead weight in any deck that cannot consistently assemble 4+ Villain spells.

    tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6

Popularity

  • EDHREC rank: #10,714

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