Grinning Totem

Artifact

Produces: an artifact being sacrificed, an artifact dying, a library being searched, a library being shuffled, anything going to a graveyard.

Cares about: an upkeep.

Partners

248 cards can cause anything going to a graveyard.

  1. Vulturous Zombie — When Grinning Totem hits the graveyard, Vulturous Zombie puts counters on a permanent
  2. Vigor — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Grinning Totem, Vigor triggers
  3. Measure of Wickedness — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Grinning Totem, Measure of Wickedness triggers

549 cards can cause an nontoken artifact being sacrificed.

  1. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — When Grinning Totem sacrifices something, Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer triggers

565 cards can cause an artifact being sacrificed.

  1. Esoteric Duplicator — When Grinning Totem sacrifices something, Esoteric Duplicator makes a token
  2. Nyssa of Traken — When Grinning Totem sacrifices something, Nyssa of Traken triggers
  3. Lithobraking — When Grinning Totem sacrifices something, Lithobraking deals 2 damage

977 cards can cause a library being searched.

  1. Archivist of Oghma — When a permanent searches a library thanks to Grinning Totem, Archivist of Oghma makes a player draw cards
  2. Wan Shi Tong, Librarian — When a permanent searches a library thanks to Grinning Totem, Wan Shi Tong, Librarian puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Ob Nixilis, Unshackled — When a permanent searches a library thanks to Grinning Totem, Ob Nixilis, Unshackled triggers

1,040 cards can cause an nontoken artifact dying.

  1. Sly Requisitioner — When Grinning Totem dies, Sly Requisitioner makes a token
  2. Psychomancer — When Grinning Totem dies, Psychomancer costs each opponent 1 life
  3. Farid, Enterprising Salvager — When Grinning Totem dies, Farid, Enterprising Salvager makes a token

1,057 cards can cause an artifact dying.

  1. Summoning Station — When Grinning Totem dies, Summoning Station untaps itself
  2. Kibo, Uktabi Prince — When Grinning Totem dies, Kibo, Uktabi Prince puts counters on a permanent
  3. Scrap Trawler — When Grinning Totem dies, Scrap Trawler brings a card back

1,185 cards can cause a library being shuffled.

  1. Cosi's Trickster — When a permanent shuffles a library thanks to Grinning Totem, Cosi's Trickster puts counters on a permanent
  2. Psychic Surgery — When a permanent shuffles a library thanks to Grinning Totem, Psychic Surgery sets the top of a library

1,358 cards can cause an artifact or enchantment dying.

  1. Scrapheap — When Grinning Totem dies, Scrapheap gains you 1 life

1,570 cards can cause an artifact leaving the battlefield.

  1. Oni-Cult Anvil — When Grinning Totem leaves the battlefield, Oni-Cult Anvil makes a token
  2. Sludge Strider — When Grinning Totem leaves the battlefield, Sludge Strider costs each opponent 1 life

1,856 cards can cause an nontoken artifact or creature being sacrificed.

  1. Bag of Devouring — When Grinning Totem sacrifices something, Bag of Devouring triggers

1,885 cards can cause an artifact or creature being sacrificed.

  1. Invasion of New Capenna // Holy Frazzle-Cannon — When Grinning Totem sacrifices something, Invasion of New Capenna // Holy Frazzle-Cannon triggers
  2. Ravenous Squirrel — When Grinning Totem sacrifices something, Ravenous Squirrel puts a counter on a permanent

EDH Seer reads the oracle text of every card in a Commander decklist and reports which pairs actually work together, with the reason printed next to each one.

34,433
cards in the corpus, 21,317 of them read in full
~495
synergy edges in an average Commander deck
0
model calls when you analyse a deck

What an edge is, and what it is not

Krenko, Mob Boss produces
Impact Tremors cares about

Edge. When a creature enters thanks to Krenko, Mob Boss, Impact Tremors deals 1 damage.

Farseek produces
Enduring Courage cares about

No edge. It wants a creature entering, and a fetched land is not one.

What it refuses to claim

Ramp, removal and card draw are roles, not synergies — they make a deck work without pairing with anything, so they are counted as slots rather than drawn as edges. A card that refers to itself ("this creature", "this spell") is read as itself and not as a class. Where the rules cannot say something, the report says nothing: a missing claim is better than a confident wrong one.

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