Alms

Alms

Enchantment

Mana cost: {W}

How we read this card

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

activated {1}, Exile the top card of your graveyard —

activated {1}, Exile the top card of your graveyard —

Causes: exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, prevented creature .

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

damage is prevented — 568 cards in the game can cause this (Alms is one).

When a creature has damage prevented thanks to Alms:

  1. Phyrexian Vindicator — deals that much damage
  2. Selfless Squire — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. New Way Forward — deals that much damage
  4. Samite Ministration — gains you that much life
  5. Judgment of Alexander — deals its power damage

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Alms is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When Alms is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

When Alms leaves a graveyard:

  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 (Alms is one).

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

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

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

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

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