Dread

Dread

Creature — Elemental Incarnation

Mana cost: {3}{B}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Fear
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

triggered —

When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

triggered —

Causes: a creature dies, shuffle a library, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this (Dread is one).

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Dread onto the battlefield from your library

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

an Elemental enters the battlefield — 754 cards in the game can cause this (Dread is one).

  1. Champion of the Path — When Dread enters, Champion of the Path deals its power damage
  2. Risen Reef — When Dread enters, Risen Reef puts a land onto the battlefield

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

When Dread shuffles a library:

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

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

When Dread 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.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Dread is one).

Dread puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — can bring back
  3. Afterlife from the Loam — can bring back
  4. Crypt Champion — can bring back
  5. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — can bring back
  6. Push // Pull — can bring back
  7. Vivien on the Hunt — can bring back
  8. Virtus's Maneuver — can bring back
  9. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  10. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Dread is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Dread:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard
  5. Ghoulish Procession — makes a token
  6. Ogre Slumlord — makes a token
  7. Minotaur, Roxxon CEO — makes a token
  8. Harvester of Souls — draws you 1 card
  9. Magus of the Bridge — exiles itself
  10. Koh, the Face Stealer — exiles it

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

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Dread is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Dread:

  1. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back
  2. Avatar Destiny — mills a card
  3. Blood Spatter Analysis — mills a card

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

put anything into a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Gathering Stone — When Dread hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, it triggers

7,588 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Dread is one).

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — When Dread attacks, Shaun, Father of Synths makes a token
  2. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — When Dread attacks, Surgical Suite // Hospital Room puts a counter on a creature
  3. Banon, the Returners' Leader — When Dread attacks, Banon, the Returners' Leader draws and discards

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Dread is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When Dread attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Dread is one).

  1. Liliana the Repentant — When Dread enters, Liliana the Repentant mills a card
  2. Paleoloth — When Dread enters, Paleoloth brings a card back

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