Deadly Plot

Deadly Plot

Instant

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

on-cast —

Return target Zombie creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

on-cast — brings a card back

Causes: you face a dilemma, a creature dies, a planeswalker is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a Zombie creature onto the battlefield, a Zombie creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a Zombie creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

put a Zombie creature into a graveyard — 21 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Apprentice Necromancer — When Apprentice Necromancer is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  2. Silversmote Ghoul — When Silversmote Ghoul is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  3. Wall of Limbs — When Wall of Limbs is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  4. Nim Replica — When Nim Replica is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  5. Gangrenous Zombies — When Gangrenous Zombies is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  6. Plague Dogs — When Plague Dogs is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  7. Haunted Cadaver — When Haunted Cadaver is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  8. Liliana's Steward — When Liliana's Steward is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  9. Priest of the Haunted Edge — When Priest of the Haunted Edge is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back
  10. Barrow Ghoul — When Barrow Ghoul is in the graveyard, Deadly Plot can bring it back

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

a planeswalker in a graveyard — 232 cards in the game can cause this (Deadly Plot is one).

Deadly Plot puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer — can bring back
  2. The Eldest Reborn — can bring back
  3. Yawgmoth's Vile Offering — can bring back
  4. Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen — can bring back
  5. Breach the Multiverse — can bring back
  6. Command the Dreadhorde — can bring back
  7. Narset, Enlightened Exile — can bring back
  8. Fallaji Archaeologist — can bring back
  9. Chandra, Chill of Compliance — can bring back

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

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

  1. Necroduality — When a Zombie enters thanks to Deadly Plot, Necroduality makes a token

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Deadly Plot is one).

When Deadly Plot poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

When a Zombie enters thanks to Deadly Plot:

  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 (Deadly Plot is one).

When a Zombie leaves a graveyard thanks to Deadly Plot:

  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 (Deadly Plot is one).

When a Zombie leaves a graveyard thanks to Deadly Plot:

  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 (Deadly Plot is one).

Deadly Plot 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. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back

800 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 Plot is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Deadly Plot:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card

68 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 Plot is one).

  1. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — When a creature dies thanks to Deadly Plot, Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity brings a card back

462 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 (Deadly Plot is one).

When Deadly Plot is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  4. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — brings a card back
  5. Forum Necroscribe — brings a card back

432 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 (Deadly Plot is one).

  1. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — When a Zombie enters thanks to Deadly Plot, Chainer, Nightmare Adept grants haste

32 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 (Deadly Plot is one).

  1. Liliana the Repentant — When a Zombie enters thanks to Deadly Plot, Liliana the Repentant mills a card
  2. Sibsig Muckdraggers — When Sibsig Muckdraggers enters thanks to Deadly Plot, it brings a card back

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