Dihada's Ploy

Dihada's Ploy

Instant

Mana cost: {1}{U}{B}

How we read this card

Draw two cards, then discard a card. You gain life equal to the number of cards you've discarded this turn.

on-cast — draws you 2 cards

on-cast —

on-cast — gains you life

Jump-start

Causes: draw a card, discard a card, gain life.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Dihada's Ploy is one).

When Dihada's Ploy makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

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

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Dihada's Ploy is one).

When Dihada's Ploy gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Dihada's Ploy is one).

When Dihada's Ploy makes a player draw a card:

  1. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  9. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature
  10. The Astonishing Ant-Man — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

57 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 (Dihada's Ploy is one).

When Dihada's 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. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  7. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  8. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  9. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — exiles a spell you control
  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 (Dihada's Ploy is one).

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

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Dihada's Ploy:

  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 (Dihada's Ploy is one).

When Dihada's 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. Master of Winds — triggers

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