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". 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 and.

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, as in the case of and the Incarnations of Judgment (e.g., ).

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-exclusive idea.

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Cards


After technology changed it became possible to combine the Tombstone icon on modern bordered FNM card.

The symbol was also used on the retro-card frames of Time Spiral Remastered and Modern Horizons 2 timeshifted cards with graveyard-relevant abilities.