Desert Warfare

Desert Warfare

Enchantment

Mana cost: {3}{G}

How we read this card

Whenever you sacrifice a Desert and whenever a Desert card is put into your graveyard from your hand or library, put that card onto the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next end step.

triggered —

triggered —

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control five or more Deserts, create that many 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature tokens. They gain haste.

triggered — makes that many tokens

triggered — grants haste

Causes: put a Desert land onto the battlefield, a Desert land leaves a graveyard, create a Sand creature token, create a Warrior creature token, put a Sand creature token onto the battlefield, put a Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: a Desert is sacrificed, the beginning of combat, a Desert you control.

Works well with

sacrifice a Desert — 10 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Lazotep Quarry — When you sacrifice a Desert to Lazotep Quarry, Desert Warfare returns it onto the battlefield
  2. Cradle of the Accursed — When you sacrifice Cradle of the Accursed, Desert Warfare returns it onto the battlefield
  3. Endless Sands — When you sacrifice Endless Sands, Desert Warfare returns it onto the battlefield
  4. Hashep Oasis — When you sacrifice a Desert to Hashep Oasis, Desert Warfare returns it onto the battlefield
  5. Scavenger Grounds — When you sacrifice a Desert to Scavenger Grounds, Desert Warfare returns it onto the battlefield
  6. Grasping Dunes — When you sacrifice Grasping Dunes, Desert Warfare returns it onto the battlefield

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

a Desert enters the battlefield — 40 cards in the game can cause this (Desert Warfare is one).

  1. Hazezon, Shaper of Sand — When a Desert enters thanks to Desert Warfare, Hazezon, Shaper of Sand makes 2 tokens

a Warrior creature enters the battlefield — 1,401 cards in the game can cause this (Desert Warfare is one).

  1. Obsidian Battle-Axe — When a Warrior enters thanks to Desert Warfare, Obsidian Battle-Axe triggers

a Warrior enters the battlefield — 1,403 cards in the game can cause this (Desert Warfare is one).

When a Warrior enters thanks to Desert Warfare:

  1. Mardu Woe-Reaper — hits a graveyard
  2. Thrasher Brute — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Decorated Champion — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a land enters the battlefield — 1,560 cards in the game can cause this (Desert Warfare is one).

When a Desert enters thanks to Desert Warfare:

  1. Primeval Bounty — gains you 3 life
  2. Toph, Earthbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Dancing from Dark to Dawn — makes a token
  4. Emeria Shepherd — brings a card back
  5. Quest for the Necropolis — puts a quest counter on itself
  6. Soul Stair Expedition — puts a quest counter on itself
  7. Nissa of Shadowed Boughs — puts counters on a permanent
  8. Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally — makes a token
  9. Silvan Reveler — returns itself from the graveyard
  10. Floral Evoker — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

199 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 (Desert Warfare is one).

When a Desert leaves a graveyard thanks to Desert Warfare:

  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.

provide a creature to sacrifice — 2,720 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Birthing Ritual — Desert Warfare makes fodder for Birthing Ritual

2,719 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Desert Warfare is one).

When a Sand or Warrior enters thanks to Desert Warfare:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Desert Warfare is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Desert Warfare makes a Sand or Warrior token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

3 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 (Desert Warfare is one).

When Desert Warfare 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 (Desert Warfare is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Desert Warfare enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Desert Warfare is one).

When a Sand or Warrior enters thanks to Desert Warfare:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (Desert Warfare is one).

When Desert Warfare makes a Sand or Warrior token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  3. Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

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

When Desert Warfare 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. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature

75 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 (Desert Warfare is one).

  1. Airbender Ascension — When a Sand or Warrior enters thanks to Desert Warfare, Airbender Ascension puts a quest counter on itself

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