Cracked Skull

Cracked Skull

Enchantment — Aura

Mana cost: {2}{B}

How we read this card

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

triggered —

When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

triggered —

Causes: discard a card, a creature dies.

Cares about: a creature is dealt damage.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Cracked Skull is one).

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Cracked Skull, it exiles a Nightmare

an Aura enters the battlefield — 1,257 cards in the game can cause this (Cracked Skull is one).

When Cracked Skull enters:

  1. Tanglespan Lookout — draws you 1 card
  2. Chishiro, the Shattered Blade — makes a token

4 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 (Cracked Skull is one).

When Cracked Skull 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

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

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Cracked Skull is one).

Cracked Skull puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Cracked Skull is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Cracked Skull:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  3. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  5. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  6. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  7. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  8. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  9. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  10. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token

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

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Cracked Skull is one).

  1. Abduction — When a creature dies thanks to Cracked Skull, Abduction brings a card back
  2. Fate Foretold — When a creature dies thanks to Cracked Skull, Fate Foretold makes a player draw 1 card
  3. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature dies thanks to Cracked Skull, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — When a creature dies thanks to Cracked Skull, Daxos, Blessed by the Sun gains you 1 life
  5. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — When a creature dies thanks to Cracked Skull, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Shriveling Rot — When a creature dies thanks to Cracked Skull, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  7. Jeskai Sage — When Jeskai Sage dies thanks to Cracked Skull, it draws you 1 card
  8. Cyclops Superconductor — When Cyclops Superconductor dies thanks to Cracked Skull, it triggers
  9. Saffi Eriksdotter — When a creature dies thanks to Cracked Skull, Saffi Eriksdotter sacrifices itself
  10. Treacherous Vampire — When Treacherous Vampire dies thanks to Cracked Skull, it makes you lose life

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

a creature goes to a graveyard — 3,011 cards in the game can cause this (Cracked Skull is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Cracked Skull:

  1. Lorcan, Warlock Collector — brings a card back
  2. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  3. Lazav, Dimir Mastermind — copies a permanent
  4. Profane Memento — gains you 1 life
  5. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers
  6. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — triggers

8 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 (Cracked Skull is one).

When Cracked Skull 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

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

an enchantment it makes cheaper to cast — 3,713 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Mana Matrix — Mana Matrix reduces what Cracked Skull costs

3,712 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (Cracked Skull is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Cracked Skull, it exiles itself

15 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 (Cracked Skull is one).

  1. Repentant Vampire — Cracked Skull fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  2. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Cracked Skull puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back
  3. Locked in the Cemetery — Cracked Skull fills your graveyard toward the 5 or more cards Locked in the Cemetery needs

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

deal damage to a creature — 18,923 cards in the game can cause this.

When a creature is dealt damage thanks to:

  1. Relic Amulet — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  2. Heart-Piercer Bow — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  3. Lothlórien Blade — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  4. Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  5. Caltrops — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  6. Gaze of Pain — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  7. Dead Reckoning — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  8. Surgehacker Mech — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  9. Time Bomb — Cracked Skull kills a creature
  10. Torture Chamber — Cracked Skull kills a creature

18,913 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.