edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Cunning Rhetoric

Cunning Rhetoric

Enchantment

Mana cost: {2}{B}

How we read this card

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

triggered —

triggered —

Causes: exile a card, cast anything.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Cunning Rhetoric is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Cunning Rhetoric, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Cunning Rhetoric is one).

When Cunning Rhetoric 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
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

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

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Cunning Rhetoric is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Cunning Rhetoric enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Cunning Rhetoric is one).

When Cunning Rhetoric enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

59 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 (Cunning Rhetoric is one).

  1. Nature's Wrath — When Cunning Rhetoric enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice a Swamp or permanent

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