Grapple with the Past

Green's Graveyard Mechanics

Re Binding of the Titans and a colour pie ask about it, it looks to me like a slow Grapple with the Past, very much a green card (both actually and in pie terms) - I've noticed before that there seems to be a lot of confusion among players with what green gets to do with the graveyard (basically, anything it wants other than putting things into play from it). That said, green rarely gets exile of any kind - exiling from the yard for an effect tends to blue more often than green.

All colors get some exile graveyard as a cost, but green’s historically got a bunch over the years.

Blue Colors Grapple with the Past Green The Exile Zone The Graveyard

Art of Grapple With

"I did. I enjoy throwbacks in art." Then perhaps you can shed some light on this thing that's been bugging me: What is going on in the art of "Grapple With the Past?" It's clearly some kind of reference to "Make a Wish" from original Innistrad, but I (like so many citizens of Innistrad) can't make sense of what's happening.

In “Make a Wish”, a little girl, holding a stuffed bear, is tossing a coin in the well to make a wish. In “Grapple with the Past”, we see the stuffed bear at the bottom of the well implying bad things happened to the little girl.

Art Bear Citizen Grapple with the Past Innistrad Little Girl Make a Wish Stuffed Bear

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