Command the Dreadhorde

Command the Dreadhorde

Sorcery

Mana cost: {4}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

on-cast — deals the total mana value of those cards damage

on-cast — brings a card back

Causes: anything deals noncombat damage, put a creature onto the battlefield, put a planeswalker onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, a planeswalker leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard, a planeswalker in a graveyard.

Works well with

put a planeswalker into a graveyard — 232 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Termination Facilitator — Termination Facilitator puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  2. Mage Hunters' Onslaught — Mage Hunters' Onslaught puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  3. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  4. Loot, the Anomaly — Loot, the Anomaly puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  5. Braids's Frightful Return — Braids's Frightful Return puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  6. Deadly Alliance — Deadly Alliance puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  7. Scavenger's Talent — Scavenger's Talent puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  8. Sheoldred // The True Scriptures — Sheoldred // The True Scriptures puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  9. Eradicator Valkyrie — Eradicator Valkyrie puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back
  10. Winter, Tormented Loner — Winter, Tormented Loner puts cards into the graveyard that Command the Dreadhorde can bring back

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

a planeswalker enters the battlefield — 366 cards in the game can cause this (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

  1. Liliana the Repentant — When a creature enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, Liliana the Repentant mills a card
  2. Liliana the Faultless — When a creature enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, Liliana the Faultless gains you 1 life
  3. Builder's Talent — When a planeswalker enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, Builder's Talent puts a counter on a creature
  4. Brainstealer Dragon — When a creature enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, Brainstealer Dragon makes a player lose life equal to its mana value
  5. Cloudstone Curio — When a creature enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, Cloudstone Curio triggers

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Command the Dreadhorde:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 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 (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

When a creature or planeswalker leaves a graveyard thanks to Command the Dreadhorde:

  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.

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

When Command the Dreadhorde 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 (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

When Command the Dreadhorde makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

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

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

When Command the Dreadhorde is cast:

  1. Soul-Scar Mage — gets +1/+1
  2. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  3. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  4. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  5. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  6. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  7. Artist's Talent — draws and discards

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — When a creature enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, Riku of Two Reflections makes a token

32 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 (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

  1. Goblin Goliath — When Goblin Goliath enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, it makes a token
  2. Embalmed Ascendant — When Embalmed Ascendant enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, it makes a token
  3. Gastal Thrillseeker — When Gastal Thrillseeker enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, it deals 1 damage
  4. Precursor Golem — When Precursor Golem enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, it makes 2 tokens
  5. Conciliator's Duelist — When Conciliator's Duelist enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, it draws you 1 card
  6. Gastal Raider — When Gastal Raider enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, it makes an opponent discard a card
  7. Deluge Virtuoso — When Deluge Virtuoso enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, it taps a creature an opponent controls

307 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 (Command the Dreadhorde is one).

  1. Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette — When Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette enters thanks to Command the Dreadhorde, it becomes prepared

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