Basilica Stalker

Basilica Stalker

Creature — Vampire Detective

Mana cost: {5}{B}

How we read this card

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life and surveil 1.

triggered — gains you 1 life

triggered — surveils

Disguise {4}{B}

Causes: gain life, surveil.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a Detective is turned face up — 6 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

When Basilica Stalker is turned face up:

  1. Case of the Pilfered Proof — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Projektor Inspector — draws you 1 card
  3. Perimeter Enforcer — gets +1/+1

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Basilica Stalker onto the battlefield from your library

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

you surveil — 233 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

When Basilica Stalker surveils:

  1. Mirko, Obsessive Theorist — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review — gives +1/+0
  3. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History — gets +1/+1
  4. Saheeli, Consul of Oversight — makes a token
  5. Copy Catchers — makes a token
  6. Proft, Consulting Detective — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Matoya, Archon Elder — draws you 1 card
  8. Denzilore Fatehold — puts a counter on a creature
  9. Whispering Snitch — deals 1 damage
  10. Blood Operative — makes you lose life

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

a creature is turned face up — 238 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

When Basilica Stalker is turned face up:

  1. Printlifter Ooze — makes a token
  2. Experiment Twelve — puts its power counters on a permanent
  3. Pyrotechnic Performer — deals its power damage
  4. Pine Walker — untaps a permanent
  5. Fatal Mutation — kills it

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Vampire attacks — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

When Basilica Stalker attacks:

  1. Glass-Cast Heart — makes a token
  2. Sanctum Seeker — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a nontoken Vampire attacks — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

  1. Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle — When Basilica Stalker attacks, Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle makes a token

a Vampire creature is cast — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

  1. Bloodlord of Vaasgoth — When Basilica Stalker is cast, Bloodlord of Vaasgoth grants bloodthirst

a Vampire deals combat damage — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

When Basilica Stalker deals combat damage:

  1. Rakish Heir — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Stensia Masquerade — puts a counter on a permanent

a Vampire enters the battlefield — 500 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

When Basilica Stalker enters:

  1. Anje, Maid of Dishonor — makes a token
  2. Forerunner of the Legion — gives +1/+1
  3. Markov Enforcer — deals damage
  4. Evelyn, the Covetous — exiles a card from a library

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

When Basilica Stalker gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

84 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 (Basilica Stalker is one).

  1. Den Protector — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Den Protector can bring back
  2. Samwise Gamgee — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  3. Bloodbond March — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  4. Thor, God of Thunder — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Thor, God of Thunder can bring back
  5. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  6. Harness the Storm — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  7. Transplant Theorist — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  8. Heart-Shaped Herb — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  9. Wayward Angel — Basilica Stalker fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  10. Rescue from the Underworld — Basilica Stalker puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back

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

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Basilica Stalker is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Basilica Stalker:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself

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