Grave Betrayal

Grave Betrayal

Enchantment

Mana cost: {5}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

triggered — brings a card back

triggered — puts a counter on it

triggered — grants a keyword

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, put a counter on anything.

Cares about: a creature dies, a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

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

  1. Erebos's Titan — When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Grave Betrayal, Erebos's Titan triggers

12 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.

When a creature dies thanks to:

  1. Shriveling Rot — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  2. Hot Soup — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  3. Cracked Skull — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  4. Sporogenic Infection — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  5. Mire Blight — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  6. Death Pits of Rath — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  7. Gisa's Favorite Shovel — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  8. Dead-Iron Sledge — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  9. Ultima Weapon — Grave Betrayal brings a card back
  10. Mage Hunters' Onslaught — Grave Betrayal brings a card back

2,820 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Betrayal is one).

When Grave Betrayal is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

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

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Betrayal is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Grave Betrayal enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When Grave Betrayal enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

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

anything gets a counter — 4,415 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Betrayal is one).

  1. All Will Be One — When a permanent gets a counter thanks to Grave Betrayal, All Will Be One deals that much damage
  2. Lonis, Genetics Expert — When Lonis, Genetics Expert gets a counter thanks to Grave Betrayal, it triggers

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Betrayal is one).

When a creature enters thanks to Grave Betrayal:

  1. Dual Nature — makes a token
  2. Faerie Artisans — makes a token
  3. Bramble Sovereign — makes a token
  4. Theoretical Duplication — makes a token
  5. Overburden — triggers

28 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 (Grave Betrayal is one).

When a creature enters thanks to Grave Betrayal:

  1. Blasting Station — untaps itself
  2. Suture Priest — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Flayer of the Hatebound — deals its power damage
  4. Mogg Bombers — sacrifices itself
  5. Flame-Kin War Scout — sacrifices itself
  6. Monkey Cage — sacrifices itself
  7. Tainted Aether — makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  8. Lethal Vapors — kills it
  9. Grave Peril — sacrifices itself
  10. Spreading Plague — kills a creature

312 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 (Grave Betrayal is one).

  1. Nature's Wrath — When Grave Betrayal enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice a Swamp or permanent

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