Dreams of the Dead

Dreams of the Dead

Enchantment

Mana cost: {3}{U}

How we read this card

Return target white or black creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains "Cumulative upkeep {2}." If the creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.

activated {1}{U} — brings a card back

activated {1}{U} — grants a keyword

activated {1}{U} —

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, exile a creature, a creature leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

a nontoken creature is exiled — 995 cards in the game can cause this (Dreams of the Dead is one).

  1. The War Games — When a creature is exiled thanks to Dreams of the Dead, The War Games exiles a Warrior

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Dreams of the Dead is one).

When a creature is exiled thanks to Dreams of the Dead:

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  2. Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Kaya, Spirits' Justice — copies a permanent
  4. Soulherder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Kaya's Ghostform — blinks a permanent

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Dreams of the Dead is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Dreams of the Dead:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

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

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Dreams of the Dead is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature is exiled thanks to Dreams of the Dead, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Dreams of the Dead:

  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.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Dreams of the Dead is one).

When Dreams of the Dead is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

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

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Dreams of the Dead is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Dreams of the Dead enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Dreams of the Dead is one).

When Dreams of the Dead enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

64 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 (Dreams of the Dead is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Dreams of the Dead:

  1. Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Splinter, the Mentor — makes a token
  3. Rat King, Pale Piper — makes a token
  4. Dual Nature — exiles a creature

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

  1. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Dreams of the Dead, Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom gains you 1 life
  2. Extractor Demon — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Dreams of the Dead, Extractor Demon mills a card
  3. Aang, Airbending Master — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Dreams of the Dead, Aang, Airbending Master puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Phantasmal Mount — When Phantasmal Mount leaves the battlefield thanks to Dreams of the Dead, it triggers
  5. Funeral March — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Dreams of the Dead, Funeral March makes a player sacrifice a creature
  6. Sally Sparrow — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Dreams of the Dead, Sally Sparrow triggers

23 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 (Dreams of the Dead is one).

  1. Airbender Ascension — When a creature enters thanks to Dreams of the Dead, Airbender Ascension puts a quest counter on itself

321 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 (Dreams of the Dead is one).

  1. Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival — When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival enters thanks to Dreams of the Dead, it shrinks a creature by -2/-2

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