Lock and Unleash

The Grim Captain's Locker is a compact tool for any graveyard focused deck. It trades raw power for steady recursion. Tap it to surveil and sculpt the top of your library. Tap it again to grant escape to every creature card in your graveyard for the turn. That second ability turns your graveyard into a one turn launch pad and rewards decks built to exile cards as a resource.

In play the Locker fits naturally into decks that value inevitability and incremental advantage. Use surveil to set up escape targets then pay the escape costs to present surprising threats from below. The flavor leans into Ixalan's lost caverns lore with a ghostly chest that remembers the crew and refuses to stay closed. Practical, straightforward and tuned for steady interaction rather than immediate burst.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {3}{B}
• Card Type – Legendary Artifact
• Subtypes –
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—3{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
• Power / Toughness –
• Loyalty –