Capricious Hellraiser

Capricious Hellraiser

Creature — Phyrexian Dragon

Mana cost: {3}{R}{R}{R}

How we read this card

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you have nine or more cards in your graveyard.

static — costs 3 less

Flying
When this creature enters, exile three cards at random from your graveyard. Choose a noncreature, nonland card from among them and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

triggered —

triggered — copies a permanent

triggered —

Causes: exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, copy an artifact, copy a battle, copy an enchantment, copy an instant, copy a planeswalker, copy a sorcery, cast an artifact, cast a battle, cast an enchantment, cast an instant, cast a planeswalker, cast a sorcery.

Cares about: a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  12. Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast — Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library
  13. Identity Echo — Identity Echo can put Capricious Hellraiser onto the battlefield from your library

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

a sorcery is copied — 83 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

When an instant is copied thanks to Capricious Hellraiser:

  1. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — brings a card back
  2. Storm-Kiln Artist — makes a token
  3. Professor Onyx — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  4. Zaffai, Thunder Conductor — scries
  5. Deekah, Fractal Theorist — makes a token
  6. Elemental Expressionist — grants a keyword
  7. Sedgemoor Witch — makes a token
  8. Witherbloom Apprentice — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  9. Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle — puts a creature, artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery, planeswalker or battle onto the battlefield
  10. Ashling, Flame Dancer — draws and discards

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

an instant is copied — 87 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

  1. Kalamax, the Stormsire — When an instant is copied thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Kalamax, the Stormsire puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

a battle is cast — 100 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

  1. Defiler of Instinct — When Capricious Hellraiser is cast, Defiler of Instinct deals 1 damage
  2. Primeval Bounty — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Primeval Bounty puts 3 counters on a creature
  3. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer gets +1/+1
  4. Thor, God of Thunder — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Thor, God of Thunder deals that spell's mana value damage
  5. Krile Baldesion — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Krile Baldesion brings a card back
  6. Summon: Good King Mog XII — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Summon: Good King Mog XII makes a token
  7. Kykar, Wind's Fury — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Kykar, Wind's Fury makes a token
  8. Tellah, Great Sage — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Tellah, Great Sage makes a token
  9. Blood Funnel — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Blood Funnel sacrifices a creature
  10. Artist's Talent — When an artifact is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Artist's Talent draws and discards

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

a planeswalker is cast — 361 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

  1. Jaya's Phoenix — When a planeswalker is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Jaya's Phoenix returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Interplanar Beacon — When a planeswalker is cast thanks to Capricious Hellraiser, Interplanar Beacon gains you 1 life
  3. Varis, Silverymoon Ranger — When Capricious Hellraiser is cast, Varis, Silverymoon Ranger triggers

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

a Dragon attacks — 474 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

When Capricious Hellraiser attacks:

  1. Silumgar, the Drifting Death — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Utvara Hellkite — makes a token
  3. The Ur-Dragon — draws you that many cards
  4. Atarka, World Render — grants double strike
  5. Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury — gives +1/+0
  6. Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw — deals 2 damage
  7. Ojutai, Soul of Winter — taps a creature, artifact, enchantment, planeswalker or battle an opponent controls
  8. Dromoka, the Eternal — puts a counter on a permanent

a Dragon deals combat damage — 474 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

When Capricious Hellraiser deals combat damage:

  1. Parapet Thrasher — triggers
  2. Broodcaller Scourge — puts a permanent onto the battlefield
  3. Zurgo and Ojutai — triggers

a nontoken Dragon enters the battlefield — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

When Capricious Hellraiser enters:

  1. Lathliss, Dragon Queen — makes a token
  2. Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm — makes a token

a Dragon it applies enters with counters to — 488 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Dragonstorm Globe — Dragonstorm Globe gives Capricious Hellraiser counters as it enters

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

a Phyrexian attacks — 495 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

  1. Vulpine Harvester — When Capricious Hellraiser attacks, Vulpine Harvester brings a card back

a nontoken Phyrexian enters the battlefield — 496 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

  1. Darksteel Splicer — When Capricious Hellraiser enters, Darksteel Splicer makes a token

a Dragon creature it boosts — 523 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Crucible of Fire — Crucible of Fire gives Capricious Hellraiser bigger stats

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

a Dragon enters the battlefield — 524 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

When Capricious Hellraiser enters:

  1. Dragon Tempest — deals damage
  2. Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory — gains you 3 life
  3. Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Ganax, Astral Hunter — makes a token
  5. Scourge of Valkas — deals damage
  6. Bladewing's Thrall — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Sarkhan, Soul Aflame — copies a permanent
  8. Teeming Dragonstorm — triggers
  9. Corroding Dragonstorm — triggers

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

a Phyrexian enters the battlefield — 524 cards in the game can cause this (Capricious Hellraiser is one).

  1. Essence of Orthodoxy — When Capricious Hellraiser enters, Essence of Orthodoxy puts a counter on a permanent

put a card into a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Irreverent Gremlin — Irreverent Gremlin fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  2. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — Inti, Seneschal of the Sun fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  3. Pyrewild Shaman — Pyrewild Shaman fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  4. Descendants' Fury — Descendants' Fury fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  5. Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act — Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  6. Fugitive Codebreaker — Fugitive Codebreaker fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  7. Bedlam Reveler — Bedlam Reveler fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  8. Dragon's Rage Channeler — Dragon's Rage Channeler fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  9. Relic Golem — Relic Golem fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs
  10. Tersa Lightshatter — Tersa Lightshatter fills your graveyard toward the 9 or more cards Capricious Hellraiser needs

7,579 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this.

When Capricious Hellraiser:

  1. Pollywog Prodigy — enters, Pollywog Prodigy puts a counter on itself
  2. Guild Feud — enters thanks to Guild Feud, it exiles a card from your graveyard

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