Black Market Connections

Black Market Connections

Enchantment

Mana cost: {2}{B}

How we read this card

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.

triggered — makes a token

triggered —

Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.

triggered — draws you 1 card

triggered —

Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life.

triggered — makes a token

triggered —

Causes: create a Treasure artifact token, put a Treasure artifact token onto the battlefield, make a player lose life, draw a card, create a Shapeshifter creature token, put a Shapeshifter creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Black Market Connections is one).

When a Shapeshifter enters thanks to Black Market Connections:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Black Market Connections is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Black Market Connections makes a Shapeshifter token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

3 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 (Black Market Connections is one).

When Black Market Connections 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.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Black Market Connections is one).

When Black Market Connections 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 (Black Market Connections is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Black Market Connections enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Black Market Connections is one).

When a Treasure enters thanks to Black Market Connections:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. 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 (Black Market Connections is one).

When Black Market Connections makes a Treasure token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  3. Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

an enchantment it makes cheaper to cast — 3,713 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jet Medallion — Jet Medallion reduces what Black Market Connections costs

3,712 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

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

When Black Market Connections 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

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Black Market Connections is one).

When Black Market Connections makes a player draw a card:

  1. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  2. Teferi's Tutelage — mills a card
  3. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  5. The Locust God — makes a token
  6. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  7. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  8. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  9. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  10. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature

57 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 (Black Market Connections is one).

  1. Airbender Ascension — When a Shapeshifter enters thanks to Black Market Connections, Airbender Ascension puts a quest counter on itself

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