Assimilate Essence
Instant
Mana cost: {1}{U}
How we read this card
Counter target creature or battle spell unless its controller pays {4}. If they do, you incubate 2.
on-cast —
- makes counter a battle
- makes counter a creature
on-cast —
- makes create a token
- makes put a token onto the battlefield
- makes put a counter on a token
Causes: counter a battle, counter a creature, create a token, put a token onto the battlefield, put a counter on a token.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Assimilate Essence is one).
When a permanent enters thanks to Assimilate Essence:
- Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
- Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
- Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
- Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes a token
- Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
- Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
- Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
- Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
- Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared
3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (Assimilate Essence is one).
When Assimilate Essence makes a token:
- Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
- Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
- Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
- Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life
17 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Assimilate Essence is one).
When Assimilate Essence is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything gets a counter — 4,415 cards in the game can cause this (Assimilate Essence is one).
- All Will Be One — When a permanent gets a counter thanks to Assimilate Essence, All Will Be One deals that much damage
7 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 (Assimilate Essence is one).
When Assimilate Essence is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.