Tombstone icon
The tombstone icon, or tombstone symbol, is a graphic in the upper-left-hand corner of a number of Odyssey block cards with graveyard-active or -relevant abilities.
Description
Due to the mechanical and thematic focus on the graveyard in Odyssey block, the tombstone icon was designed to be featured on cards from the block's sets — Odyssey, Torment, and Judgment — so as to "make players' lives easier".[1] The practice of placing a tombstone icon was not carried over to future expansions or blocks, but the tombstone icon has since been seen on the Time Spiral "timeshifted" reprints of Template:Cardlink and Template:Cardlink.
History
Introduced in Odyssey, the tombstone icon was featured on cards with the Flashback ability. In Torment and Judgment, the tombstone icon was used indicator of cards with graveyard-active abilities,[2] as in the case of Template:Cardlink[3] and the Incarnations of Judgment (e.g., Template:Cardlink).[4]
The original plan was to make it a permanent addition, but it couldn’t work with the new card frame (starting two blocks later in Mirrodin) so R&D decided to just make it a block thing.[5]
Comprehensive Rules
From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)
- 107.9. A tombstone icon appears to the left of the name of many Odyssey™ block cards with abilities that are relevant in a player’s graveyard. The purpose of the icon is to make those cards stand out when they’re in a graveyard. This icon has no effect on game play.
List of cards featuring the tombstone icon
- Odyssey block cards with flashback
- Template:Cardlink
- Judgment Incarnations
- Template:Cardlink
- Template:Cardlink
FNM Promos
After technology changed it became possible to combine the Tombstone icon on modern bordered FNM Promos.[6]
See also
References
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