edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Devious Cover-Up

Devious Cover-Up

Instant

Mana cost: {2}{U}{U}

How we read this card

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may shuffle up to four target cards from your graveyard into your library.

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Causes: counter a spell, exile a spell, a spell leaves the battlefield, shuffle a library, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

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

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

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Devious Cover-Up is one).

When Devious Cover-Up leaves a graveyard:

  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 (Devious Cover-Up is one).

When Devious Cover-Up is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  3. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  4. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  5. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  6. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  7. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  8. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — 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 (Devious Cover-Up is one).

When Devious Cover-Up 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.