Blossoming Tortoise

Blossoming Tortoise

Creature — Turtle

Mana cost: {2}{G}{G}

How we read this card

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, mill three cards, then return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

triggered — mills a card

triggered — mills a card

triggered — brings a card back

triggered — brings a card back

Activated abilities of lands you control cost {1} less to activate.

static — costs {1} less

Land creatures you control get +1/+1.

static — gives +1/+1

Causes: mill a card, put a land onto the battlefield, a land leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a land in a graveyard, a land it makes cheaper to cast, a creature it boosts, a land it boosts.

Works well with

a Turtle it boosts — 154 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Turtle Power! — Turtle Power! gives Blossoming Tortoise bigger stats

153 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

put a land into a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Spiked Ripsaw — Spiked Ripsaw puts cards into the graveyard that Blossoming Tortoise can bring back
  2. Excavating Anurid — Excavating Anurid puts cards into the graveyard that Blossoming Tortoise can bring back
  3. Centaur Garden — When Centaur Garden is in the graveyard, Blossoming Tortoise can bring it back
  4. Haven of the Spirit Dragon — When Haven of the Spirit Dragon is in the graveyard, Blossoming Tortoise can bring it back
  5. Edgewall Inn — When Edgewall Inn is in the graveyard, Blossoming Tortoise can bring it back
  6. Lazotep Quarry — Lazotep Quarry puts cards into the graveyard that Blossoming Tortoise can bring back
  7. Urza's Saga — When Urza's Saga is in the graveyard, Blossoming Tortoise can bring it back
  8. Inventors' Fair — When Inventors' Fair is in the graveyard, Blossoming Tortoise can bring it back
  9. Haunted Fengraf — When Haunted Fengraf is in the graveyard, Blossoming Tortoise can bring it back
  10. Gargantuan Gorilla — Gargantuan Gorilla puts cards into the graveyard that Blossoming Tortoise can bring back

624 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a land enters the battlefield — 1,560 cards in the game can cause this (Blossoming Tortoise is one).

When a land enters thanks to Blossoming Tortoise:

  1. Primeval Bounty — gains you 3 life
  2. Toph, Earthbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Dancing from Dark to Dawn — makes a token
  4. Emeria Shepherd — brings a card back
  5. Quest for the Necropolis — puts a quest counter on itself
  6. Soul Stair Expedition — puts a quest counter on itself
  7. Nissa of Shadowed Boughs — puts counters on a permanent
  8. Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally — makes a token
  9. Silvan Reveler — returns itself from the graveyard
  10. Floral Evoker — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

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

When a land leaves a graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise:

  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.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Blossoming Tortoise is one).

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

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, Quest for Ancient Secrets puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, Planar Void hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, Measure of Wickedness gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, Energy Field sacrifices itself
  5. Dread — When Dread hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, it triggers
  6. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre — When Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, it triggers
  7. Hostility — When Hostility hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, it triggers
  8. Worldspine Wurm — When Worldspine Wurm hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, it triggers
  9. Purity — When Purity hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, it triggers
  10. Kozilek, Butcher of Truth — When Kozilek, Butcher of Truth hits the graveyard thanks to Blossoming Tortoise, it triggers

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Blossoming Tortoise is one).

When Blossoming Tortoise attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  3. Invisible Woman — triggers
  4. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  5. Guide of Souls — triggers
  6. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food
  7. Gossip's Talent — triggers
  8. Banon, the Returners' Leader — draws and discards

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Blossoming Tortoise is one).

When Blossoming Tortoise attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Anthem of Rakdos — gives +2/+0
  3. Kindred Discovery — draws you 1 card
  4. Saw — sacrifices a creature

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

a creature blocks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Blossoming Tortoise is one).

  1. Tide of War — When Blossoming Tortoise blocks, Tide of War sacrifices a creature

140 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 (Blossoming Tortoise is one).

When Blossoming Tortoise enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  3. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  4. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  5. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  6. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

3,029 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Blossoming Tortoise is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Blossoming Tortoise enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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