graveyard

CEFRB2

/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/

noun

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01
noun
An area of ground where dead people are buried.
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noun
Extra detail
A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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He was buried in this graveyard.
graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch
Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead.

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Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead.
2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 49
Her husband, of course, came dressed as Herman Melville.) She's a veteran of these marathons, and warned me about the forthcoming graveyard stretch—when Moby-Dick melds with the altered brain chemistry of sleep deprivation.
2024 January 14, Luke Winkie, “A Whale of a Time”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2024
They're all out on this southbound odyssey / And the train pulls out of Kankakee / Rolls past the houses, farms, and fields / Passing towns that have no name / And freight yards full of old black men / And the graveyards of rusted automobiles.
1971, Steve Goodman, “City of New Orleans”, in Steve Goodman
If you want to be tricky, though, Rapid Decay can be a flying elbow drop out of nowhere for a surprise win against graveyard manipulation decks; they will always see a Beetles coming, remember.
2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 Years of Decks, Thoughts, and Theory!, →ISBN, page 235
When a player does discard or use a card or when a creature also died or a spell gets destroyed, that card gets placed into the player's graveyard.
2015, Kinetik Gaming, Magic the Gathering Game Guide (Unofficial), →ISBN

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From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).