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.
- Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Lich — Lich fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Stitcher's Graft — Stitcher's Graft fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Worldslayer — Worldslayer fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Aether Barrier — Aether Barrier fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Spirit-Sister's Call — Spirit-Sister's Call fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- 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
- Liliana, Dreadhorde General — Liliana, Dreadhorde General fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Rakdos Riteknife — Rakdos Riteknife fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Lich's Tomb — Lich's Tomb fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Mindlash Sliver — Mindlash Sliver fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Mindwhip Sliver — Mindwhip Sliver fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Liliana of the Veil — Liliana of the Veil fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Ugin's Construct — Ugin's Construct fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Wirefly Hive — Wirefly Hive fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Souls of the Lost — Souls of the Lost fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Eumidian Wastewaker — Eumidian Wastewaker fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- God-Eternal Bontu — God-Eternal Bontu fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- Archfiend of Spite — Archfiend of Spite fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more permanent cards Join the Dead needs
- 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.