Cantankerous Keepers

Cantankerous Keepers

Creature — Elf Soldier

Mana cost: {5}{G}

How we read this card

Affinity for Elves
When this creature enters, mill four cards, then put all Elf cards from among them into your hand.

triggered — mills a card

triggered — brings a card back

Causes: mill a card, an Elf leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: an Elf in a graveyard.

Works well with

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

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

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

an Elf attacks — 723 cards in the game can cause this (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

When Cantankerous Keepers attacks:

  1. Celeborn the Wise — scries
  2. Tyvar the Bellicose — grants deathtouch
  3. Harald Unites the Elves — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  4. Arboreal Alliance — triggers

a nontoken Elf enters the battlefield — 728 cards in the game can cause this (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

  1. Wirewood Hivemaster — When Cantankerous Keepers enters, Wirewood Hivemaster makes a token

an Elf enters the battlefield — 752 cards in the game can cause this (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

When Cantankerous Keepers enters:

  1. Wolverine Riders — gains you its toughness life
  2. Elvish Warmaster — makes a token
  3. Elvish Vanguard — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Marwyn, the Nurturer — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Woodland Weavemaster — gets +1/+1
  6. High Perfect Morcant — puts a counter on a permanent an opponent controls
  7. Maralen, Fae Ascendant — exiles a card from an opponent's library

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

a Soldier creature enters the battlefield — 1,279 cards in the game can cause this (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

  1. Veteran's Armaments — When Cantankerous Keepers enters, Veteran's Armaments triggers

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

When Cantankerous Keepers leaves a graveyard:

  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 (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

Cantankerous Keepers:

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

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Cantankerous Keepers:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

7 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 (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

When Cantankerous Keepers 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

127 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 (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

When Cantankerous Keepers attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Saw — sacrifices a creature

198 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 (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

When Cantankerous Keepers 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. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  5. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

348 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 (Cantankerous Keepers is one).

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

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