Dream Eater

Dream Eater

Creature — Nightmare Sphinx

Mana cost: {4}{U}{U}

How we read this card

Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 4.

triggered — surveils

When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

triggered — bounce

Causes: surveil, an artifact leaves the battlefield, a battle leaves the battlefield, a creature leaves the battlefield, an enchantment leaves the battlefield, a planeswalker leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

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

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

a Sphinx attacks — 144 cards in the game can cause this (Dream Eater is one).

  1. The Ur-Sphinx — When Dream Eater attacks, The Ur-Sphinx mills a card

a Sphinx enters the battlefield — 149 cards in the game can cause this (Dream Eater is one).

  1. Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign — When Dream Eater enters, Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign triggers

a Nightmare enters the battlefield — 151 cards in the game can cause this (Dream Eater is one).

  1. Umbris, Fear Manifest — When Dream Eater enters, Umbris, Fear Manifest exiles a card from an opponent's library

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

When Dream Eater 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.

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Dream Eater is one).

  1. Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Dream Eater, Dual Nature exiles a creature

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Dream Eater is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Dream Eater:

  1. Extractor Demon — mills a card
  2. Valor of the Worthy — makes a token
  3. Traveling Plague — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature

27 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 (Dream Eater is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Thor, God of Thunder — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Thor, God of Thunder can bring back
  4. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  5. Harness the Storm — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  6. Transplant Theorist — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  7. Heart-Shaped Herb — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  8. Wayward Angel — Dream Eater fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  9. Rescue from the Underworld — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  10. Victimize — Dream Eater puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize 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 (Dream Eater is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Dream Eater:

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

When Dream Eater attacks:

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — makes a token
  2. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  3. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  4. Invisible Woman — triggers
  5. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  6. Guide of Souls — triggers
  7. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food

120 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 (Dream Eater is one).

When Dream Eater attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Saw — sacrifices a creature

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

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Dream Eater is one).

  1. Champions of the Perfect — When Dream Eater is cast, Champions of the Perfect draws you 1 card

90 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 (Dream Eater is one).

When Dream Eater enters:

  1. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — gains you 1 life
  2. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  3. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  4. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  5. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  6. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  7. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

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

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Dream Eater is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Dream Eater enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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