edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Deadly Cover-Up

Deadly Cover-Up

Sorcery

Mana cost: {3}{B}{B}

How we read this card

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6.

on-cast —

Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

on-cast —

on-cast — hits a graveyard

on-cast — searches a library

on-cast —

on-cast — draws you cards

Causes: collect evidence, a creature dies, exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, search your library, shuffle a library, draw a card.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — When Toothy, Imaginary Friend leaves the battlefield thanks to Deadly Cover-Up, it draws you cards
  2. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Deadly Cover-Up, it triggers
  3. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Deadly Cover-Up, it exiles a Nightmare

you collect evidence — 18 cards in the game can cause this (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

When Deadly Cover-Up collects evidence:

  1. Surveillance Monitor — makes a token
  2. Evidence Examiner — triggers

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Deadly Cover-Up, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

Deadly Cover-Up puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Blastoneuron — can bring back
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — can bring back
  3. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  4. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  5. Paleoloth — can bring back
  6. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  7. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  8. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  9. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  10. Necromantic Thirst — 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 (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Deadly Cover-Up:

  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 (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

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

452 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 (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Deadly Cover-Up:

  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.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

When Deadly Cover-Up is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

  1. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — When Deadly Cover-Up makes a player draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, Parun deals 1 damage

66 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 (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Deadly Cover-Up, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

31 other cards care about 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 (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Deadly Cover-Up, it exiles itself

16 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 (Deadly Cover-Up is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Deadly Cover-Up fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — Deadly Cover-Up fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  3. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Deadly Cover-Up puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back
  4. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Deadly Cover-Up puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back

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