Captive Audience

Captive Audience

Enchantment

Mana cost: {5}{B}{R}

How we read this card

This enchantment enters under the control of an opponent of your choice.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen —

triggered —

Your life total becomes 4.

triggered — sets a life total

Discard your hand.

triggered —

Each opponent creates five 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

triggered — makes 5 tokens

Causes: you face a dilemma, discard a card, create a Zombie creature token, put a Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: an upkeep.

Works well with

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Captive Audience is one).

When Captive Audience poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a Zombie enters the battlefield — 795 cards in the game can cause this (Captive Audience is one).

  1. Noxious Ghoul — When a Zombie enters thanks to Captive Audience, Noxious Ghoul shrinks a creature by -1/-1

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

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Captive Audience is one).

When Captive Audience makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 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 (Captive Audience is one).

When Captive Audience 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 (Captive Audience is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Captive Audience enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When a Zombie enters thanks to Captive Audience:

  1. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes a token
  2. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token

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

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

When Captive Audience 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

69 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 (Captive Audience is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — Captive Audience puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Captive Audience puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Captive Audience puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  4. Harness the Storm — Captive Audience puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  5. Transplant Theorist — Captive Audience puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  6. Heart-Shaped Herb — Captive Audience puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  7. Wayward Angel — Captive Audience fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  8. Rescue from the Underworld — Captive Audience puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  9. Victimize — Captive Audience puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  10. Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card — Captive Audience fills your graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card needs

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 (Captive Audience is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Captive Audience:

  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.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Captive Audience is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Captive Audience:

  1. Blasting Station — untaps itself
  2. Mogg Bombers — sacrifices itself
  3. Flame-Kin War Scout — sacrifices itself
  4. Monkey Cage — sacrifices itself
  5. Tainted Aether — makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  6. Lethal Vapors — kills it
  7. Spreading Plague — kills a creature

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