Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes

Sorcery

Mana cost: {1}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

on-cast —

on-cast — deals 5 damage

Causes: exile a creature, a creature leaves the battlefield, anything deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Ashes to Ashes is one).

When a creature is exiled thanks to Ashes to Ashes:

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  2. Soulherder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

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

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature is exiled thanks to Ashes to Ashes, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Ashes to Ashes is one).

When Ashes to Ashes deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  4. Dragonborn Champion — draws you 1 card
  5. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  6. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  7. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  8. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  9. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  10. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

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

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Ashes to Ashes is one).

When Ashes to Ashes makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

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

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Ashes to Ashes is one).

When Ashes to Ashes is cast:

  1. Soul-Scar Mage — gets +1/+1
  2. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  3. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  4. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  5. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  6. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  7. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  8. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  9. Artist's Talent — draws and discards
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

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

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Ashes to Ashes is one).

  1. Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Ashes to Ashes, Dual Nature exiles a creature

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Ashes to Ashes is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Ashes to Ashes:

  1. Extractor Demon — mills a card
  2. Valor of the Worthy — makes a token
  3. Traveling Plague — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature

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

anything is dealt damage — 19,812 cards in the game can cause this (Ashes to Ashes is one).

When Ashes to Ashes is dealt damage:

  1. Darien, King of Kjeldor — makes that many tokens
  2. Blood Hound — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. Angelheart Vial — puts that many charge counters on itself
  4. Sun Droplet — puts that many charge counters on itself
  5. Living Artifact — puts that many counters on a permanent
  6. Swarmborn Giant — sacrifices itself
  7. Risona, Asari Commander — triggers
  8. Azor's Elocutors — triggers
  9. Lich — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Contested Game Ball — untaps itself

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

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Ashes to Ashes is one).

When Ashes to Ashes is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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