Empty the Pits

Empty the Pits

Instant

Mana cost: {X}{X}{B}{B}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Delve

static —

Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

on-cast — makes X tokens

Causes: create a Zombie creature token, put a Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

a Zombie enters the battlefield — 795 cards in the game can cause this (Empty the Pits is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Empty the Pits:

  1. Noxious Ghoul — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Geralf, the Fleshwright — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Wayward Servant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Champion of the Perished — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Mummy Paramount — gets +1/+1
  6. Unconventional Tactics — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Binding Mummy — taps a creature or artifact

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

When a Zombie enters thanks to Empty the Pits:

  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 (Empty the Pits is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Empty the Pits makes a Zombie 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 (Empty the Pits is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Empty the Pits:

  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 (Empty the Pits is one).

When Empty the Pits makes a Zombie 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 it makes cheaper to cast — 3,773 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Empty the Pits costs

3,772 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Empty the Pits is one).

When Empty the Pits 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. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  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.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Empty the Pits is one).

  1. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — Sokka, Bold Boomeranger fills the graveyard Empty the Pits delves from
  2. Samwise Gamgee — Samwise Gamgee fills the graveyard Empty the Pits delves from
  3. Liliana the Repentant — Liliana the Repentant fills the graveyard Empty the Pits delves from
  4. Rankle and Torbran — Rankle and Torbran fills the graveyard Empty the Pits delves from
  5. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot fills the graveyard Empty the Pits delves from
  6. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — Caesar, Legion's Emperor fills the graveyard Empty the Pits delves from

7,583 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 (Empty the Pits is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Empty the Pits:

  1. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — gains you 1 life
  2. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — gains you 1 life
  3. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — gains you 1 life
  4. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — gains you 1 life
  5. Ayara, First of Locthwain — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Blasting Station — untaps itself
  7. General Kreat, the Boltbringer — deals 1 damage
  8. Mogg Bombers — sacrifices itself
  9. Flame-Kin War Scout — sacrifices itself
  10. Monkey Cage — sacrifices itself

329 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 (Empty the Pits is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Empty the Pits:

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Nature's Wrath — makes a player sacrifice a Swamp or permanent

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

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Empty the Pits is one).

When Empty the Pits is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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