edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Diminishing Returns

Diminishing Returns

Sorcery

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

How we read this card

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.

on-cast —

on-cast —

on-cast — draws you 7 cards

Causes: shuffle a library, exile a card, draw a card.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a library is shuffled — 1,189 cards in the game can cause this (Diminishing Returns is one).

When Diminishing Returns shuffles a library:

  1. Cosi's Trickster — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Psychic Surgery — triggers

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Diminishing Returns is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Diminishing Returns, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Diminishing Returns is one).

When Diminishing Returns is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

424 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 (Diminishing Returns is one).

When Diminishing Returns makes a player draw a card:

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

57 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 (Diminishing Returns is one).

When Diminishing Returns 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.