Gathering Stone

Gathering Stone

Artifact

Mana cost: {4}

How we read this card

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

static — costs 1 less

When this artifact enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

triggered — searches a library

triggered — searches a library

triggered — mills a card

triggered — mills a card

Causes: mill a card.

Cares about: an upkeep, a creature it makes cheaper to cast, an artifact it makes cheaper to cast, an enchantment it makes cheaper to cast, a planeswalker it makes cheaper to cast, an instant it makes cheaper to cast, a sorcery it makes cheaper to cast, a battle it makes cheaper to cast.

Works well with

a card is milled — 772 cards in the game can cause this (Gathering Stone is one).

  1. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — When a permanent makes a player mill a card thanks to Gathering Stone, Lo and Li, Royal Advisors puts a counter on an Advisor

an artifact is cast — 3,683 cards in the game can cause this (Gathering Stone is one).

When Gathering Stone is cast:

  1. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — copies a spell
  2. Sai, Master Thopterist — makes a token
  3. Ravenous Robots — makes a token
  4. Pinnacle Emissary — makes a token
  5. Mirrodin Besieged — makes a token
  6. Poetic Ingenuity — makes a token
  7. Digsite Engineer — makes a token
  8. Myrsmith — makes a token
  9. Riddlesmith — draws you 1 card
  10. Dr. Madison Li — puts a counter on a permanent you control

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

a nontoken artifact enters the battlefield — 3,768 cards in the game can cause this (Gathering Stone is one).

When Gathering Stone enters:

  1. Ultron, Artificial Malevolence — makes a token
  2. The Prydwen, Steel Flagship — makes a token
  3. Conquest Mission — puts a quest counter on itself
  4. Surge Conductor — proliferates
  5. Replication Specialist — makes a token
  6. Weapons Manufacturing — makes a token
  7. Mirrorworks — makes a token

an artifact enters the battlefield — 4,643 cards in the game can cause this (Gathering Stone is one).

When Gathering Stone enters:

  1. Transplant Theorist — draws you 1 card
  2. Elvish Archivist — puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. Golbez, Crystal Collector — surveils
  4. Sludge Strider — makes a player lose 1 life
  5. Underhanded Designs — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Mechan Assembler — makes a token
  7. Glassdust Hulk — gets +1/+1
  8. Rook Turret — draws you 1 card
  9. Hedron Detonator — deals 1 damage
  10. Pactdoll Terror — makes each opponent lose 1 life

205 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 (Gathering Stone is one).

  1. Vessel of Endless Rest — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Vessel of Endless Rest can bring back
  2. Samwise Gamgee — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  3. Fire Nation Salvagers — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Fire Nation Salvagers can bring back
  4. Bloodbond March — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  5. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  6. Harness the Storm — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  7. Heart-Shaped Herb — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  8. Wayward Angel — Gathering Stone fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  9. Rescue from the Underworld — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  10. Victimize — Gathering Stone puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back

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

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Gathering Stone is one).

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, The Haunt of Hightower puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Duskmantle Guildmage — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, Duskmantle Guildmage makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Vulturous Zombie — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, Vulturous Zombie puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Quest for Ancient Secrets — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, Quest for Ancient Secrets puts a quest counter on itself
  5. Bloodchief Ascension — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, Bloodchief Ascension makes each opponent lose 2 life
  6. Compost — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, Compost draws you 1 card
  7. Planar Void — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, Planar Void hits a graveyard
  8. Measure of Wickedness — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, Measure of Wickedness gives an opponent control of itself
  9. Energy Field — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, Energy Field sacrifices itself
  10. Dread — When Dread hits the graveyard thanks to Gathering Stone, it triggers

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

a creature it makes cheaper to cast — 19,392 cards in the game can cause this (Gathering Stone is one).

Gathering Stone reduces what:

  1. Extravagant Replication — costs
  2. Devouring Sugarmaw // Have for Dinner — costs
  3. Fuss // Bother — costs
  4. The Rani — costs
  5. Indulge // Excess — costs
  6. Thopter Spy Network — costs
  7. Dovin, Grand Arbiter — costs
  8. Kaito, Dancing Shadow — costs
  9. Saheeli, Sublime Artificer — costs

19,383 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 (Gathering Stone is one).

When Gathering Stone enters:

  1. HYDRA Assault Robot — deals 1 damage
  2. Era of Innovation — puts a counter on a permanent you control

687 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 (Gathering Stone is one).

  1. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — When Gathering Stone is cast, Sokka, Bold Boomeranger puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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