Ethereal Absolution

Ethereal Absolution

Enchantment

Mana cost: {4}{W}{B}

How we read this card

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

static — gives +1/+1

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.

static — shrinks a creature by -1/-1

Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, you create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.

activated {2}{W}{B} — hits a graveyard

activated {2}{W}{B} — makes a token

Causes: a creature dies, exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, create a Spirit creature token, put a Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: a creature it boosts.

Works well with

a Spirit enters the battlefield — 863 cards in the game can cause this (Ethereal Absolution is one).

When a Spirit enters thanks to Ethereal Absolution:

  1. Mausoleum Wanderer — gets +1/+1
  2. Drogskol Cavalry — gains you 2 life
  3. Vanguard of the Restless — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Nebelgast Herald — taps a creature an opponent controls

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Ethereal Absolution is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Ethereal Absolution, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

5 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 (Ethereal Absolution is one).

Ethereal Absolution 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 (Ethereal Absolution is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Ethereal Absolution:

  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 token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Ethereal Absolution is one).

When a Spirit enters thanks to Ethereal Absolution:

  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 (Ethereal Absolution is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Ethereal Absolution makes a Spirit 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 creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Ethereal Absolution is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Ethereal Absolution:

  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
  4. Shadows of the Past — scries
  5. Shriveling Rot — makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  6. Meathook Massacre II — brings a card back
  7. Saffi Eriksdotter — sacrifices itself

960 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 (Ethereal Absolution is one).

When Ethereal Absolution is cast:

  1. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  2. Cyclops Superconductor — gets +1/+1
  3. Jeskai Sage — gets +1/+1

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

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

  1. Strength from the Fallen — When Ethereal Absolution enters, Strength from the Fallen gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard

148 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 (Ethereal Absolution is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Ethereal Absolution puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

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

a creature it boosts — 19,392 cards in the game can cause this (Ethereal Absolution is one).

Ethereal Absolution gives:

  1. Pollywog Prodigy — bigger stats
  2. Havengul Lich — bigger stats
  3. Saheeli, Radiant Creator — bigger stats
  4. Captain Jean-Luc Picard — bigger stats
  5. Windrider Wizard — bigger stats
  6. Master of Winds — bigger stats
  7. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — bigger stats
  8. Invisible Woman — bigger stats
  9. Rockslide Sorcerer — bigger stats
  10. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — bigger stats

19,381 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 (Ethereal Absolution is one).

When a Spirit enters thanks to Ethereal Absolution:

  1. Liliana the Repentant — mills a card
  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. Boss's Chauffeur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

3,031 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.