Drag the Canal

Drag the Canal

Instant

Mana cost: {U}{B}

How we read this card

Create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token. If a creature died this turn, you gain 2 life, surveil 2, then investigate.

on-cast — makes a token

on-cast — gains you 2 life

on-cast — surveils

on-cast —

Causes: create a Detective creature token, put a Detective creature token onto the battlefield, gain life, surveil, create a Clue artifact token, put a Clue artifact token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a Detective enters the battlefield — 148 cards in the game can cause this (Drag the Canal is one).

When a Detective enters thanks to Drag the Canal:

  1. Case of the Pilfered Proof — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Projektor Inspector — draws you 1 card
  3. Perimeter Enforcer — gets +1/+1

you surveil — 233 cards in the game can cause this (Drag the Canal is one).

When Drag the Canal surveils:

  1. Mirko, Obsessive Theorist — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review — gives +1/+0
  3. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History — gets +1/+1
  4. Saheeli, Consul of Oversight — makes a token
  5. Copy Catchers — makes a token
  6. Proft, Consulting Detective — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Matoya, Archon Elder — draws you 1 card
  8. Denzilore Fatehold — puts a counter on a creature
  9. Whispering Snitch — deals 1 damage
  10. Blood Operative — makes you lose life

5 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 (Drag the Canal is one).

When Drag the Canal 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.

provide a creature to sacrifice — 2,720 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Drag the Canal makes fodder for Jalira, Master Polymorphist
  2. Polymorph — Drag the Canal makes fodder for Polymorph
  3. Proteus Staff — Drag the Canal makes fodder for Proteus Staff
  4. Synthetic Destiny — Drag the Canal makes fodder for Synthetic Destiny
  5. Mass Polymorph — Drag the Canal makes fodder for Mass Polymorph

2,715 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Drag the Canal is one).

When a Detective enters thanks to Drag the Canal:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Drag the Canal is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Drag the Canal makes a Detective token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

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

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Drag the Canal is one).

When a Detective enters thanks to Drag the Canal:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (Drag the Canal is one).

When Drag the Canal makes a Detective token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  3. Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

17 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 (Drag the Canal is one).

When Drag the Canal 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.

an artifact enters the battlefield — 4,643 cards in the game can cause this (Drag the Canal is one).

When a Clue enters thanks to Drag the Canal:

  1. Transplant Theorist — draws you 1 card
  2. Elvish Archivist — puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. Golbez, Crystal Collector — surveils
  4. Sludge Strider — makes a player lose 1 life
  5. Underhanded Designs — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Mechan Assembler — makes a token
  7. Glassdust Hulk — gets +1/+1
  8. Rook Turret — draws you 1 card

60 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 (Drag the Canal is one).

  1. Vessel of Endless Rest — Drag the Canal puts cards into the graveyard that Vessel of Endless Rest can bring back

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