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Put Into Graveyard is a term used for the ability of creatures for when they are put from the battle zone into your graveyard.
It is also commonly referred to as a "PiG" ability.
Details
This ability is triggered whenever a creature is destroyed and put into the graveyard. This also covers destruction by the effect of any card, including destruction by battle.
Due to its mechanics, it can be slower to trigger than a regular Come Into Play ability. However, it can be comboed together with Self Removal cards.
However, this also leads to creatures having lower costs due to this disadvantages to the slower timing. This can lead to causing problems for your opponent in the early game trying to remove them and avoid their trigger.
These types of cards also work well in suicidal attacks (possibly after tapping your opponents creatures). They also work together with Creature Recovery cards to be able to continually reuse them.
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| / Creature Hedrian 1000 |
| ■ When this creature is destroyed, your opponent discards a card at random from his hand. |
Rules
- When a card such as Jack Viper, Shadow of Doom puts one of your creatures with a PiG ability into a zone other than the graveyard, their ability is not triggered due to the substitution ability.
- Cards such as Dark Soul Creation and Deadly Love can be used with these types of creatures. The "destroy" on these abilities all qualify as being "put into the graveyard".
- "When they would leave the battle zone" triggers at the same time as a PiG ability. When both of them would be triggered at the same time, the owner of the cards chooses the order.
Other Details
- Mist Rias, Sonic Guardian being on the Hall of Fame shows the difference in strength of the CiP and PiG abilites, with its equivalent Mongrel Man (or later; Super Trash Train, Fuuma Devil) being unrestricted.
- CoroCoro refers to them as "When Die Effect".