Decoy Ploy

Decoy Ploy

Instant

Mana cost: {1}{B}

How we read this card

Return target Villain card from your graveyard to your hand.

on-cast — brings a card back

Return target Hero card from your graveyard to your hand.

on-cast — brings a card back

Causes: you face a dilemma, a Villain leaves a graveyard, a Hero leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a Villain in a graveyard, a Hero in a graveyard.

Works well with

a Hero in a graveyard — 4 cards in the game can cause this (Decoy Ploy is one).

  1. Guerrilla Gorilla — When Guerrilla Gorilla is in the graveyard, Decoy Ploy can bring it back
  2. Masked Meower — When Masked Meower is in the graveyard, Decoy Ploy can bring it back
  3. Deadpool, Trading Card — When Deadpool, Trading Card is in the graveyard, Decoy Ploy can bring it back
  4. Spectacular Spider-Man — When Spectacular Spider-Man is in the graveyard, Decoy Ploy can bring it back

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

When Decoy Ploy 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

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Decoy Ploy is one).

When a Villain leaves a graveyard thanks to Decoy Ploy:

  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.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Decoy Ploy is one).

When Decoy Ploy is cast:

  1. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  2. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  3. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  4. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  6. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls

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

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Decoy Ploy is one).

When Decoy Ploy is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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