Dig Up the Body

Dig Up the Body

Instant

Mana cost: {2}{B}

How we read this card

Casualty 1

on-cast —

Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

on-cast — mills a card

on-cast — brings a card back

Causes: sacrifice a creature, mill a card, a creature leaves a graveyard.

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

Works well with

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Dig Up the Body is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Dig Up the Body:

  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 (Dig Up the Body is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Dig Up the Body:

  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 (Dig Up the Body is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Dig Up the Body:

  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 (Dig Up the Body is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Dig Up the Body:

  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.

put a creature into a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  2. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  3. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  4. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  5. Saw — Saw puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  6. Hot Soup — Hot Soup puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  7. Cracked Skull — Cracked Skull puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  8. Sporogenic Infection — Sporogenic Infection puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  9. Mire Blight — Mire Blight puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back
  10. Death Pits of Rath — Death Pits of Rath puts cards into the graveyard that Dig Up the Body can bring back

2,759 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is sacrificed — 3,450 cards in the game can cause this (Dig Up the Body is one).

  1. Gorbag of Minas Morgul — When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Dig Up the Body, Gorbag of Minas Morgul triggers

3 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 (Dig Up the Body is one).

When Dig Up the Body is cast:

  1. Death to Our Enemies — makes a token
  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.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Dig Up the Body is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Transplant Theorist — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  4. Heart-Shaped Herb — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  5. Wayward Angel — Dig Up the Body fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  6. Rescue from the Underworld — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  7. Victimize — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  8. Bound // Determined — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  9. Enlightened Confidant — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back
  10. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Dig Up the Body puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring back

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

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Dig Up the Body is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Dig Up the Body:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

7 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 (Dig Up the Body is one).

When Dig Up the Body is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Master of Winds — triggers

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