Lava Serpent

Lava Serpent

Creature — Elemental Serpent

Mana cost: {5}{R}

How we read this card

Haste
Cycling {2}

Causes: nothing.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  12. Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast — Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library
  13. Identity Echo — Identity Echo can put Lava Serpent onto the battlefield from your library

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

a creature is discarded — 206 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

When Lava Serpent makes a player discard a card:

  1. Wharf Infiltrator — makes a token
  2. Bone Miser — makes a token
  3. Hashaton, Scarab's Fist — makes a token
  4. Surly Badgersaur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer — brings a card back
  6. Conspiracy Theorist — brings a card back
  7. Veronica, Dissident Scribe — makes a token
  8. Green Goblin, Nemesis — puts a counter on a Goblin

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an Elemental enters the battlefield — 754 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

When Lava Serpent enters:

  1. Champion of the Path — deals its power damage
  2. Risen Reef — puts a land onto the battlefield

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

When Lava Serpent makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

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

a creature goes to a graveyard — 3,011 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

When Lava Serpent hits the graveyard:

  1. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  2. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  3. Voracious Brood — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  4. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers
  5. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — triggers
  6. Sefris of the Hidden Ways — triggers

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

When Lava Serpent makes a player draw a card:

  1. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  9. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature
  10. The Astonishing Ant-Man — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring it back
  2. Transplant Theorist — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Transplant Theorist can bring it back
  3. Heart-Shaped Herb — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Heart-Shaped Herb can bring it back
  4. Wayward Angel — Lava Serpent fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  5. Rescue from the Underworld — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Rescue from the Underworld can bring it back
  6. Victimize — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Victimize can bring it back
  7. Bound // Determined — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Bound // Determined can bring it back
  8. Enlightened Confidant — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Enlightened Confidant can bring it back
  9. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring it back
  10. Aerith, Last Ancient — When Lava Serpent is in the graveyard, Aerith, Last Ancient can bring it back

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

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

When Lava Serpent hits the graveyard:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself

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

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

  1. Bloodbond March — When Lava Serpent is cast, Bloodbond March brings a card back

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Lava Serpent is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — When Lava Serpent enters, Samwise Gamgee makes a token

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