Greed's Gambit

Greed's Gambit

Enchantment

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

When this enchantment enters, you draw three cards, gain 6 life, and create three 2/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying.

triggered — draws you 3 cards

triggered — gains you 6 life

triggered — makes 3 tokens

At the beginning of your end step, you discard a card, lose 2 life, and sacrifice a creature.

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When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you discard three cards, lose 6 life, and sacrifice three creatures.

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Causes: draw a card, gain life, create a Bat creature token, put a Bat creature token onto the battlefield, discard a card, make a player lose life, sacrifice a creature, a creature dies.

Cares about: an end step, a creature to sacrifice.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Greed's Gambit is one).

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — When Toothy, Imaginary Friend leaves the battlefield thanks to Greed's Gambit, it draws you cards
  2. Gollum, Patient Plotter — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Greed's Gambit, it has the Ring tempt you
  3. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Greed's Gambit, it exiles a Nightmare

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Greed's Gambit is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Greed's Gambit:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Greed's Gambit is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Greed's Gambit:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

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

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Greed's Gambit is one).

When Greed's Gambit makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

53 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 (Greed's Gambit is one).

When Greed's Gambit 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.

a creature to sacrifice — 2,720 cards in the game can cause this (Greed's Gambit is one).

  1. Primeval Bounty — Primeval Bounty makes fodder for Greed's Gambit
  2. Saheeli, Radiant Creator — Saheeli, Radiant Creator makes fodder for Greed's Gambit
  3. Captain Jean-Luc Picard — Captain Jean-Luc Picard makes fodder for Greed's Gambit
  4. Invisible Woman — Invisible Woman makes fodder for Greed's Gambit

2,715 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 (Greed's Gambit is one).

Greed's Gambit puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Greed's Gambit is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Greed's Gambit:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  9. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  10. Body Launderer — draws and discards

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

put an enchantment onto the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Eldrazi Confluence — When Greed's Gambit enters thanks to Eldrazi Confluence, it draws you 3 cards

3,742 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (Greed's Gambit is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Greed's Gambit, it exiles itself

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