Grave Venerations

Grave Venerations

Enchantment

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.

triggered —

At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

triggered — brings a card back

Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

triggered — makes each opponent lose 1 life

triggered — gains you 1 life

triggered — drains each opponent

Causes: become the monarch, a creature leaves a graveyard, make a player lose life, gain life.

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

Works well with

you become the monarch — 57 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Venerations is one).

When Grave Venerations makes you the monarch:

  1. Custodi Lich — makes a player sacrifice a creature
  2. Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader — triggers

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Grave Venerations:

  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.

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Venerations is one).

When Grave Venerations gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

84 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 (Grave Venerations is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Grave Venerations:

  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.

put a creature into a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  2. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  3. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  4. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  5. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  6. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  7. Saw — Saw puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  8. Hot Soup — Hot Soup puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  9. Cracked Skull — Cracked Skull puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back
  10. Sporogenic Infection — Sporogenic Infection puts cards into the graveyard that Grave Venerations can bring back

2,759 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Ghoulish Procession — When a Zombie dies thanks to Ghoulish Procession, Grave Venerations makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Curse of the Restless Dead — When a Zombie dies thanks to Curse of the Restless Dead, Grave Venerations makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Drudge Spell — When a Skeleton dies thanks to Drudge Spell, Grave Venerations makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Illness in the Ranks — When a creature dies thanks to Illness in the Ranks, Grave Venerations makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Virulent Plague — When a creature dies thanks to Virulent Plague, Grave Venerations makes each opponent lose 1 life

2,825 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Venerations is one).

When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Grave Venerations:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
  2. Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
  3. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
  4. Aether Syphon — raises your speed
  5. Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
  6. Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
  7. Slick Imitator — raises your speed
  8. Nesting Bot — raises your speed
  9. Howlsquad Heavy — raises your speed
  10. Hour of Victory — raises your speed

46 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 (Grave Venerations is one).

When Grave Venerations 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 Venerations is one).

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

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

When Grave Venerations 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. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature

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