Invasive Surgery
Instant
Mana cost: {U}
How we read this card
Counter target sorcery spell.
on-cast —
- makes counter a sorcery
If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, search the graveyard, hand, and library of that spell's controller for any number of cards with the same name as that spell, exile those cards, then that player shuffles.
on-cast — searches a library
- makes search spell
on-cast —
- makes exile a spell
on-cast —
- makes shuffle a library
Causes: counter a sorcery, search spell , exile a spell, shuffle a library.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a library is searched — 982 cards in the game can cause this (Invasive Surgery is one).
When a spell searches a library thanks to Invasive Surgery:
- River Song — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Archivist of Oghma — gains you 1 life
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Ob Nixilis, Unshackled — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature
anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Invasive Surgery is one).
- The War Doctor — When Invasive Surgery is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Invasive Surgery is one).
When Invasive Surgery 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 (Invasive Surgery is one).
When Invasive Surgery 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.