Desperate Plea

Desperate Plea

Sorcery — Lesson

Mana cost: {1}{B}

How we read this card

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

on-cast —

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if its power is less than or equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

on-cast — brings a card back

Destroy target creature.

on-cast —

Causes: sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, you face a dilemma, put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Desperate Plea is one).

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Desperate Plea, it triggers
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Desperate Plea, it exiles a Nightmare

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

When Desperate Plea 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 creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Plea is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Desperate Plea:

  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.

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Plea is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Desperate Plea:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Plea is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Desperate Plea:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

19 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 (Desperate Plea is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Desperate Plea:

  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.

  1. Havengul Lich — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Havengul Lich can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Liliana the Repentant can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Paleoloth can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Chainer, Nightmare Adept can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Banon, the Returners' Leader can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Surgical Suite // Hospital Room can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Necromantic Thirst can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Krile Baldesion can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — Desperate Plea puts cards into the graveyard that Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar can bring back
  11. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  12. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  13. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  14. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  15. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  16. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  17. Saw — Saw puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  18. Hot Soup — Hot Soup puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  19. Cracked Skull — Cracked Skull puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back
  20. Sporogenic Infection — Sporogenic Infection puts cards into the graveyard that Desperate Plea can bring back

1,339 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 (Desperate Plea is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Desperate Plea:

  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

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

a sorcery it makes cheaper to cast — 3,585 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Desperate Plea costs

3,584 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Plea is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Desperate Plea fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

443 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 (Desperate Plea is one).

  1. Odunos River Trawler — When Odunos River Trawler enters thanks to Desperate Plea, it brings a card back

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

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Plea is one).

  1. Malik, Grim Manipulator — When Malik, Grim Manipulator enters thanks to Desperate Plea, it triggers
  2. Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace — When Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace enters thanks to Desperate Plea, it makes an opponent sacrifice a creature

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