Extirpate
Instant
Mana cost: {B}
How we read this card
Split second
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
on-cast — searches a library
- makes search your library
on-cast —
- makes exile a card
on-cast —
- makes shuffle a library
Causes: search your library, exile a card, shuffle a library.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a library is searched — 982 cards in the game can cause this (Extirpate is one).
When a permanent searches a library thanks to Extirpate:
- River Song — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Archivist of Oghma — gains you 1 life
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Ob Nixilis, Unshackled — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature
anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Extirpate is one).
- The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Extirpate, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Extirpate is one).
When Extirpate is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 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 (Extirpate is one).
When Extirpate is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.