Tombstone icon

The tombstone icon, or tombstone symbol, is a graphic in the upper-left-hand corner of several Odyssey block cards with graveyard-active or -relevant abilities.
==Description==
Due to the mechanical and thematic focus on the graveyard in the Odyssey block, the tombstone icon was designed to be featured on cards from the block's sets Odyssey, Torment, and Judgment to "make players' lives easier". 
==History==
Introduced in Odyssey, the tombstone icon was featured on cards with the Flashback ability. In Torment and Judgment, the tombstone icon was used indicator of cards with graveyard-active abilities, as in the case of and the Incarnations of Judgment (e.g., ).
The original plan was to make it a permanent addition, but it couldn't work with the new card frame (starting two blocks later in Mirrodin) so R&D decided to just make it a block-exclusive idea. A few years later, changes in printing technology allowed for the tombstone icon to appear alongside this new card frame, which was used on .
While the tombstone icon was not carried over to future frames, the icon has continued to see use on reprints featuring the retro frame, such as Time Spiral's "timeshifted" reprints of and , and several reprints in The Brothers' War Commander, and various sets that feature retro frame treatments as a Booster Fun or bonus sheet element. Innistrad Remastered saw the first occasion of the icon being placed on double-faced cards (DFCs). Retro frame cards with Disturb used the new retro frame DFC icon (a grey upwards pointing triangle) on the front face with the tombstone icon below it.
==Rules==
==Gallery==
File:TOR Ichorid.jpg|alt=Ichorid (Torment)|, with its recursion/self-reanimating ability, is one such card that features the tombstone icon.
File:INR Lunarch Veteran.png|alt=Lunarch Veteran (Innistrad Remastered #450)| in the retro frame displaying both the retro double-faced card indicator (triangle) and tombstone icon.
==Cards==
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==See also==
*Numbers and symbols
==References==
Category:Parts of a card