Compulsive Research

Compulsive Research

Sorcery

Mana cost: {2}{U}

How we read this card

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

on-cast — draws you 3 cards

on-cast —

on-cast —

Causes: draw a card, discard a card, discard a land.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a land is discarded — 69 cards in the game can cause this (Compulsive Research is one).

When a land makes a player discard a card thanks to Compulsive Research:

  1. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead — makes a token
  2. Bone Miser — adds 2 mana
  3. Waste Not — adds 2 mana
  4. Surly Badgersaur — makes a token
  5. Green Goblin, Nemesis — makes a token
  6. Doctor Doom, King of Latveria — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  7. Invasion of Kaldheim // Pyre of the World Tree — exiles a card from your library

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

When Compulsive Research 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. Sangromancer — gains you 3 life
  6. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — puts a counter on an Advisor
  7. Nath of the Gilt-Leaf — makes a token
  8. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  9. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  10. Currency Converter — exiles it

51 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 (Compulsive Research is one).

When Compulsive Research is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Compulsive Research is one).

When Compulsive Research makes a player draw a card:

  1. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted — deals 1 damage
  5. The Locust God — makes a token
  6. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  7. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  8. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  9. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  10. Orcish Bowmasters — deals 1 damage

57 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 (Compulsive Research is one).

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

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Compulsive Research:

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Duskmantle Guildmage — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Vulturous Zombie — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  5. Bloodchief Ascension — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  6. Compost — draws you 1 card
  7. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  8. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  9. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

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

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Compulsive Research is one).

When Compulsive Research is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Master of Winds — triggers

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