Chainer's Torment

Chainer's Torment

Enchantment — Saga

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
This Saga deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

triggered — deals 2 damage

triggered — gains you 2 life

Create an X/X black Nightmare Horror creature token, where X is half your life total, rounded up. It deals X damage to you.

triggered — makes a token

triggered — deals X damage

Causes: anything deals noncombat damage, gain life, create a Horror creature token, create a Nightmare creature token, put a Horror creature token onto the battlefield, put a Nightmare creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a Nightmare enters the battlefield — 151 cards in the game can cause this (Chainer's Torment is one).

  1. Umbris, Fear Manifest — When a Nightmare enters thanks to Chainer's Torment, Umbris, Fear Manifest exiles a card from an opponent's library

a Saga in a graveyard — 186 cards in the game can cause this (Chainer's Torment is one).

When Chainer's Torment is in the graveyard:

  1. Rydia, Summoner of Mist — can bring it back
  2. Satsuki, the Living Lore — can bring it back

an enchantment is sacrificed — 588 cards in the game can cause this (Chainer's Torment is one).

  1. Narci, Fable Singer — When you sacrifice Chainer's Torment, Narci, Fable Singer draws you 1 card

an enchantment in a graveyard — 983 cards in the game can cause this (Chainer's Torment is one).

When Chainer's Torment is in the graveyard:

  1. The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell — gets bigger
  2. Lotus-Eye Mystics — can bring it back
  3. Builder's Talent — can bring it back
  4. Tasigur, the Golden Fang — can bring it back
  5. Serpent of the Pass — gets bigger
  6. Emeria Shepherd — can bring it back
  7. Moment of Reckoning — can bring it back
  8. Muldrotha, the Gravetide — can bring it back
  9. Deadbridge Chant — can bring it back
  10. Invasion of Tolvada // The Broken Sky — can bring it back

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

an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 987 cards in the game can cause this (Chainer's Torment is one).

When Chainer's Torment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  1. Neva, Stalked by Nightmares — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Knight of Doves — makes a token
  3. Warehouse Tabby — makes a token
  4. Starfield Mystic — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Femeref Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  6. Savior of the Sleeping — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Ashiok's Reaper — draws you 1 card
  8. Wicked Visitor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  9. Martyr's Bond — makes an opponent sacrifice a permanent

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

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Chainer's Torment is one).

When Chainer's Torment gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

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

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Chainer's Torment is one).

When a Nightmare or Horror enters thanks to Chainer's Torment:

  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 (Chainer's Torment is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Chainer's Torment makes a Nightmare or Horror 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.

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Chainer's Torment is one).

When Chainer's Torment deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  4. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  5. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  6. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  7. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  8. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  9. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

37 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 (Chainer's Torment is one).

When Chainer's Torment makes a player lose life:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
  2. Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
  3. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
  4. Aether Syphon — raises your speed
  5. Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
  6. Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
  7. Slick Imitator — raises your speed
  8. Nesting Bot — raises your speed
  9. Howlsquad Heavy — raises your speed
  10. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment

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 (Chainer's Torment is one).

When Chainer's Torment is cast:

  1. Soul-Scar Mage — gets +1/+1
  2. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  3. Death to Our Enemies — makes a token
  4. Artist's Talent — draws and discards

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