Embargo

Embargo

Enchantment

Mana cost: {3}{U}

How we read this card

Nonland permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

static — keeps permanents from untapping

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

triggered —

Causes: make a player lose life.

Cares about: an upkeep.

Works well with

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Embargo is one).

When Embargo makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

46 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 (Embargo is one).

When Embargo 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 (Embargo is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Embargo enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

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

63 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 (Embargo is one).

  1. Nature's Wrath — When Embargo enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice an Island or permanent

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