Grim Reminder
Instant
Mana cost: {2}{B}
How we read this card
Search your library for a nonland card and reveal it. Each opponent who cast a spell this turn with the same name as that card loses 6 life. Then shuffle.
on-cast — searches a library
- makes search artifact
- makes search battle
- makes search creature
- makes search enchantment
- makes search instant
- makes search planeswalker
- makes search sorcery
on-cast — makes each opponent lose 6 life
- makes make a player lose life
on-cast —
- makes shuffle a library
Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.
activated {B}{B} — brings a card back
- wants an upkeep
- makes anything leaves a graveyard
Causes: search artifact , search battle , search creature , search enchantment , search instant , search planeswalker , search sorcery , make a player lose life, shuffle a library, anything leaves a graveyard.
Cares about: an upkeep.
Works well with
an instant leaves a graveyard — 202 cards in the game can cause this (Grim Reminder is one).
- Murktide Regent — When Grim Reminder leaves a graveyard, Murktide Regent puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Grim Reminder is one).
When Grim Reminder leaves a graveyard:
- Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
- Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
- Hologram Stalker — makes a token
- Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
- Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
- Garrison Excavator — makes a token
- Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
- Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
- Teval's Judgment — triggers
13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Grim Reminder is one).
When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Grim Reminder:
- Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
- Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
- Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
- Aether Syphon — raises your speed
- Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
- Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
- Slick Imitator — raises your speed
- Nesting Bot — raises your speed
- Howlsquad Heavy — raises your speed
- Hour of Victory — raises your speed
46 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 (Grim Reminder is one).
When Grim Reminder is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 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 (Grim Reminder is one).
When Grim Reminder is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.