Magic: The Gathering: 10 Most Powerful Artifacts In 2020 Standard
4. Grafdigger’s Cage
Originally printed in Dark Ascension many moons ago Grafdigger’s Cage makes an appearance in Magic 2020, the latest Core Set.
The Cage prohibits creatures from entering play from their owner’s library or graveyard, meaning that once somethings dead it stays dead. It also completely wrecks the -2 ability on Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast, a very prevalent card in today's meta.
It stops zombies from being reanimated and for creatures such as Arclight Phoenix it even stops their triggered effects to reborn themselves.
Its secondary effect stops a player from casting spells from their graveyard which means it stops everything from Flashback to the latest graveyard mechanic from Theros Beyond Death, ‘escape’.
For a single mana investment, the payoff is huge stopping some of the best graveyard strategies in Standard, you're going to want this against Black/Red Sacrifice and Blue/Red Arclight Phoenix decks!