Aether Rift

Aether Rift

Enchantment

Mana cost: {1}{R}{G}

How we read this card

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card at random. If you discard a creature card this way, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield unless any player pays 5 life.

triggered —

triggered — brings a card back

Causes: discard a card, put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: an upkeep, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Aether Rift is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Aether Rift:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Aether Rift is one).

When Aether Rift makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Aether Rift is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Aether Rift:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Aether Rift is one).

When Aether Rift is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

255 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Aether Rift is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Aether Rift enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Aether Rift is one).

When Aether Rift enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

68 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Aether Rift is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — Aether Rift puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Aether Rift puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Aether Rift puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  4. Harness the Storm — Aether Rift puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  5. Transplant Theorist — Aether Rift puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  6. Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card — Aether Rift fills your graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card needs

438 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Aether Rift is one).

  1. Airbender Ascension — When a creature enters thanks to Aether Rift, Airbender Ascension puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Fire Nation Salvagers — When Fire Nation Salvagers enters thanks to Aether Rift, it puts a counter on a creature or Vehicle
  3. Fell Specter — When Fell Specter enters thanks to Aether Rift, it makes an opponent discard a card

365 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.