Grapple with the Past

Grapple with the Past

Instant

Mana cost: {1}{G}

How we read this card

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand.

on-cast — mills a card

on-cast — brings a card back

Causes: mill a card, a creature leaves a graveyard, a land leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard, a land in a graveyard.

Works well with

put a land into a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Lazotep Quarry — Lazotep Quarry puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  2. Gargantuan Gorilla — When Gargantuan Gorilla is in the graveyard, Grapple with the Past can bring it back
  3. Harvester Troll — Harvester Troll puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  4. Plant Elemental — When Plant Elemental is in the graveyard, Grapple with the Past can bring it back
  5. Primeval Force — When Primeval Force is in the graveyard, Grapple with the Past can bring it back
  6. Scythe Tiger — When Scythe Tiger is in the graveyard, Grapple with the Past can bring it back
  7. Rogue Elephant — When Rogue Elephant is in the graveyard, Grapple with the Past can bring it back
  8. Blast Zone — Blast Zone puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  9. Sequestered Stash — Sequestered Stash puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  10. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum — Eden, Seat of the Sanctum puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back

624 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Grapple with the Past is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Grapple with the Past:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

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

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Grapple with the Past is one).

When a creature or land leaves a graveyard thanks to Grapple with the Past:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 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 (Grapple with the Past is one).

  1. Rankle and Torbran — Rankle and Torbran puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  2. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  3. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — Caesar, Legion's Emperor puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  4. Ayara, First of Locthwain — Ayara, First of Locthwain puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  5. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  6. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  7. Tainted Aether — Tainted Aether puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  8. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back
  9. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard that Grapple with the Past can bring back

2,760 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Grapple with the Past is one).

When Grapple with the Past 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 (Grapple with the Past is one).

Grapple with the Past:

  1. Samwise Gamgee — puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Transplant Theorist — puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  4. Heart-Shaped Herb — puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  5. Wayward Angel — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  6. Rescue from the Underworld — puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  7. Victimize — puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  8. Bound // Determined — puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  9. Enlightened Confidant — puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back
  10. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 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 (Grapple with the Past is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Grapple with the Past:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

7 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 (Grapple with the Past is one).

When Grapple with the Past 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.