Solemn DoomguideHow it works & interactions with other cards

Unearthing the Party

While Solemn Doomguide is on the battlefield, every Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard card in your graveyard gains the Unearth ability for a flat cost of {1}{B}. This applies to any creature card that has at least one of these four specific subtypes. If a card has multiple types, such as a Cleric Wizard, it still only costs {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield.

The Step-by-Step Return

To use the ability, the creature card must be in your graveyard during your main phase while the stack is empty. You pay {1}{B} and activate the Unearth ability. The creature returns to the battlefield and gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, or if the creature would leave the battlefield for any other reason, it is exiled instead. This means the creature is essentially 'borrowed' for one final turn.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

It is important to remember that Unearth is a sorcery-speed activation; you cannot use it during an opponent's turn or in response to a spell unless you have an effect that allows you to cast sorceries with flash. Furthermore, if a creature returned this way would be destroyed or bounced to your hand, the replacement effect from Unearth will exile it instead. You cannot 'save' an unearthed creature by returning it to your hand.

When to Play Solemn Doomguide

Solemn Doomguide is most effective in decks that focus on the 'party' mechanic or tribal strategies involving its supported types. Because it is a 3/4 flyer itself, it provides a solid aerial threat while enabling you to reuse powerful 'enters-the-battlefield' abilities from your graveyard for a very low mana investment.

Interaction examples

Type-Specific Synergy

Roaming Throne

If you have Roaming Throne in your graveyard and you chose 'Cleric' as it entered the battlefield earlier in the game, it counts as a Cleric card in your graveyard. Solemn Doomguide will grant it Unearth {1}{B}. When you unearth Roaming Throne, it returns to the battlefield and its replacement effect and triggered ability doubling will function normally for your chosen type until the end of the turn.

Value Limitations

Solemn Simulacrum

If Solemn Simulacrum is in your graveyard, Solemn Doomguide does NOT grant it Unearth because the Simulacrum is a Golem, not a Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, or Wizard. You would need to change its type or add one of the required types for the Doomguide to interact with it. Even if it were unearthed via another effect, remember that when an unearthed creature is exiled at the end of the turn, it does not 'die,' so the Simulacrum's card-draw ability would not trigger.