Curious Cadaver

Curious Cadaver

Creature — Zombie Detective

Mana cost: {2}{U}{B}

How we read this card

Flying
When you sacrifice a Clue, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

triggered — brings a card back

Causes: anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a Clue is sacrificed.

Works well with

sacrifice a Clue — 21 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Unshakable Tail — When you sacrifice a Clue to Unshakable Tail, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Lead Pipe — When you sacrifice Lead Pipe, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  3. Tangletrove Kelp — When you sacrifice Tangletrove Kelp, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Parcel Myr — When you sacrifice Parcel Myr, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  5. Esoteric Duplicator — When you sacrifice Esoteric Duplicator, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  6. Candy Trail — When you sacrifice Candy Trail, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Candlestick — When you sacrifice Candlestick, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  8. Scene of the Crime — When you sacrifice Scene of the Crime, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  9. Ransom Note — When you sacrifice Ransom Note, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard
  10. Five Hundred Year Diary — When you sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary, Curious Cadaver returns itself from the graveyard

11 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Detective enters the battlefield — 148 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

When Curious Cadaver enters:

  1. Case of the Pilfered Proof — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Projektor Inspector — draws you 1 card
  3. Perimeter Enforcer — gets +1/+1

a Zombie deals combat damage — 657 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

  1. Undead Alchemist — When Curious Cadaver deals combat damage, Undead Alchemist mills a card

a Zombie attacks — 657 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

  1. Varina, Lich Queen — When Curious Cadaver attacks, Varina, Lich Queen draws you that many cards

a nontoken Zombie enters the battlefield — 661 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

  1. Necroduality — When Curious Cadaver enters, Necroduality makes a token

a Zombie enters the battlefield — 795 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

When Curious Cadaver enters:

  1. Noxious Ghoul — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Geralf, the Fleshwright — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Wayward Servant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Champion of the Perished — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Mummy Paramount — gets +1/+1
  6. Unconventional Tactics — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Binding Mummy — taps a creature or artifact

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

When Curious Cadaver leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 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 (Curious Cadaver is one).

When Curious Cadaver leaves a graveyard:

  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.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

When Curious Cadaver attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  3. Grim Javelineer — gives +1/+0
  4. Invisible Woman — triggers
  5. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  6. Guide of Souls — triggers
  7. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food
  8. Gossip's Talent — triggers
  9. Banon, the Returners' Leader — draws and discards
  10. Toph, Earthbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

When Curious Cadaver attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Anthem of Rakdos — gives +2/+0
  3. Kindred Discovery — draws you 1 card
  4. Invasion of New Capenna // Holy Frazzle-Cannon — puts counters on a permanent
  5. Chorale of the Void — brings a card back
  6. Saw — sacrifices a creature
  7. Gisa's Favorite Shovel — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature
  8. Ultima Weapon — kills a creature an opponent controls

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

a creature blocks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

When Curious Cadaver blocks:

  1. Tide of War — sacrifices a creature
  2. Dead-Iron Sledge — kills a creature

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Curious Cadaver is one).

When Curious Cadaver enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  3. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  4. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  5. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  6. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

305 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 (Curious Cadaver is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Curious Cadaver enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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