Cruel Revival

Cruel Revival

Instant

Mana cost: {4}{B}

How we read this card

Destroy target non-Zombie creature. It can't be regenerated. Return up to one target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

on-cast —

on-cast — brings a card back

Causes: a creature dies, a Zombie leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a Zombie in a graveyard.

Works well with

a Zombie in a graveyard — 29 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Apprentice Necromancer — When Apprentice Necromancer is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back
  2. Silversmote Ghoul — When Silversmote Ghoul is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back
  3. Wall of Limbs — When Wall of Limbs is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back
  4. Nim Replica — When Nim Replica is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back
  5. Deathmark Prelate — Deathmark Prelate puts cards into the graveyard that Cruel Revival can bring back
  6. Ravenous Rotbelly — Ravenous Rotbelly puts cards into the graveyard that Cruel Revival can bring back
  7. Gangrenous Zombies — When Gangrenous Zombies is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back
  8. Plague Dogs — When Plague Dogs is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back
  9. Haunted Cadaver — When Haunted Cadaver is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back
  10. Liliana's Steward — When Liliana's Steward is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back
  11. Priest of the Haunted Edge — When Priest of the Haunted Edge is in the graveyard, Cruel Revival can bring it back

38 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 (Cruel Revival is one).

When a Zombie leaves a graveyard thanks to Cruel Revival:

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

Cruel Revival puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — can bring back
  3. Afterlife from the Loam — can bring back
  4. Crypt Champion — can bring back
  5. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — can bring back
  6. Push // Pull — can bring back
  7. Vivien on the Hunt — can bring back
  8. Virtus's Maneuver — can bring back
  9. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  10. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — 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 (Cruel Revival is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Cruel Revival:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard
  5. Ghoulish Procession — makes a token
  6. Ogre Slumlord — makes a token
  7. Minotaur, Roxxon CEO — makes a token
  8. Harvester of Souls — draws you 1 card
  9. Magus of the Bridge — exiles itself
  10. Koh, the Face Stealer — exiles it

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 (Cruel Revival is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Cruel Revival:

  1. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back
  2. Avatar Destiny — mills a card
  3. Blood Spatter Analysis — mills a card
  4. Shadows of the Past — scries
  5. Shriveling Rot — makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  6. Meathook Massacre II — brings a card back
  7. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  8. Missy — brings a card back
  9. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire — brings a card back
  10. Saffi Eriksdotter — sacrifices itself

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 (Cruel Revival is one).

When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Cruel Revival:

  1. Lorcan, Warlock Collector — brings a card back
  2. Lazav, Dimir Mastermind — copies a permanent
  3. Profane Memento — gains you 1 life
  4. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers

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

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Cruel Revival is one).

When Cruel Revival is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  3. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — brings a card back
  4. Cyclops Superconductor — gets +1/+1
  5. Jeskai Sage — gets +1/+1
  6. Pink Horror — deals 2 damage
  7. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  8. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  9. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  10. Cryptic Pursuit — triggers

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

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Cruel Revival is one).

  1. Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Cruel Revival, Dual Nature exiles a creature

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Cruel Revival is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Cruel Revival:

  1. Extractor Demon — mills a card
  2. Valor of the Worthy — makes a token
  3. Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature

29 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 (Cruel Revival is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Cruel Revival puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

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