Join the Dead

Join the Dead

Instant

Mana cost: {1}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

on-cast — shrinks a creature by -5/-5

Descend 4 — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

on-cast — shrinks a creature by -10/-10

Causes: nothing.

Cares about: a permanent in a graveyard.

Works well with

a permanent in a graveyard — 173 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  2. Lich — Lich fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  3. Stitcher's Graft — Stitcher's Graft fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  4. Worldslayer — Worldslayer fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  5. Aether Barrier — Aether Barrier fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  6. Spirit-Sister's Call — Spirit-Sister's Call fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  7. Extricator of Sin // Extricator of Flesh — Extricator of Sin // Extricator of Flesh fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  8. Liliana, Dreadhorde General — Liliana, Dreadhorde General fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  9. Rakdos Riteknife — Rakdos Riteknife fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  10. Lich's Tomb — Lich's Tomb fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  11. Mindlash Sliver — Mindlash Sliver fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  12. Mindwhip Sliver — Mindwhip Sliver fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  13. Liliana of the Veil — Liliana of the Veil fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  14. Ugin's Construct — Ugin's Construct fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  15. Wirefly Hive — Wirefly Hive fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  16. Souls of the Lost — Souls of the Lost fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  17. Eumidian Wastewaker — Eumidian Wastewaker fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  18. God-Eternal Bontu — God-Eternal Bontu fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  19. Archfiend of Spite — Archfiend of Spite fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
  20. Phyrexian Negator — Phyrexian Negator fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs

201 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 (Join the Dead is one).

When Join the Dead is cast:

  1. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  2. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  3. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  4. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  6. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. 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 (Join the Dead is one).

When Join the Dead is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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