Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead

Enchantment

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

How we read this card

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.

triggered —

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

triggered — brings a card back

triggered — grants haste

Causes: make a player lose life, put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: an upkeep, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Dawn of the Dead:

  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. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

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 (Dawn of the Dead is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Dawn of the Dead:

  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.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Dawn of the Dead is one).

When Dawn of the Dead makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

46 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 (Dawn of the Dead is one).

When Dawn of the Dead 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 (Dawn of the Dead is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Dawn of the Dead enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When Dawn of the Dead 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

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Dawn of the Dead is one).

When a creature enters thanks to Dawn of the Dead:

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — makes a token
  2. Samwise Gamgee — makes a token
  3. Dual Nature — makes a token
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — grants haste
  5. Preston, the Vanisher — makes a token

28 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 (Dawn of the Dead is one).

  1. Embalmed Ascendant — When Embalmed Ascendant enters thanks to Dawn of the Dead, it makes a token
  2. Gastal Thrillseeker — When Gastal Thrillseeker enters thanks to Dawn of the Dead, it deals 1 damage
  3. Airbender Ascension — When a creature enters thanks to Dawn of the Dead, Airbender Ascension puts a quest counter on itself
  4. Gastal Raider — When Gastal Raider enters thanks to Dawn of the Dead, it makes an opponent discard a card

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