Confront the Past

Confront the Past

Sorcery — Lesson

Mana cost: {X}{B}

How we read this card

Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

on-cast — brings a card back

Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.

on-cast —

Causes: you face a dilemma, put a planeswalker onto the battlefield, a planeswalker leaves a graveyard, remove a counter from a planeswalker.

Cares about: a planeswalker in a graveyard.

Works well with

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

  1. Hooded Blightfang — Hooded Blightfang puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  2. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  3. Loot, the Anomaly — Loot, the Anomaly puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  4. Scavenger's Talent — Scavenger's Talent puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  5. Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord — Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  6. Awaken the Honored Dead — Awaken the Honored Dead puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  7. Dreamshaper Shaman — Dreamshaper Shaman puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  8. Winter, Tormented Loner — Winter, Tormented Loner puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  9. Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats — Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  10. Blood on the Snow — Blood on the Snow puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  11. Bone Shards — Bone Shards puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  12. Argentum Masticore — Argentum Masticore puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  13. Braids, Arisen Nightmare — Braids, Arisen Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  14. Rottenmouth Viper — Rottenmouth Viper puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  15. Vengeful Strangler // Strangling Grasp — Vengeful Strangler // Strangling Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  16. Thornplate Intimidator — Thornplate Intimidator puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  17. Shadow, Mysterious Assassin — Shadow, Mysterious Assassin puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  18. Umbral Juke — Umbral Juke puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  19. Spark Reaper — Spark Reaper puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back
  20. Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools — Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools puts cards into the graveyard that Confront the Past can bring back

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

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

When a planeswalker enters thanks to Confront the Past:

  1. Builder's Talent — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Brainstealer Dragon — makes a player lose life equal to its mana value
  3. Cloudstone Curio — triggers

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

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

When Confront the Past 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

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Confront the Past is one).

When a planeswalker leaves a graveyard thanks to Confront the Past:

  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.

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

When Confront the Past 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.

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

When Confront the Past is cast:

  1. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  3. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  4. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  5. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  6. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  7. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  8. Master of Winds — triggers

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