Life // Death

Life // Death

Sorcery // Sorcery

Mana cost: {G} // {1}{B}

How we read this card

All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

on-cast — turns something into a creature

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to its mana value.

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast —

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, make a player lose life.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Life is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Life // Death:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

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

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Life is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Life // Death:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

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

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Life is one).

When Life // Death makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

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

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Life is one).

When Life // Death is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

424 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 (Life is one).

When a creature enters thanks to Life // Death:

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — makes a token
  2. Samwise Gamgee — makes a token
  3. Dual Nature — makes a token
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — grants haste
  5. Preston, the Vanisher — makes a token
  6. Angelic Sell-Sword — makes a token
  7. Arni, Humble Scribe — untaps itself
  8. Saradoc, Master of Buckland — makes a token
  9. Lonis, Cryptozoologist — triggers
  10. Radiant Solar — triggers

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Life is one).

  1. Embalmed Ascendant — When Embalmed Ascendant enters thanks to Life // Death, it makes a token
  2. Gastal Thrillseeker — When Gastal Thrillseeker enters thanks to Life // Death, it deals 1 damage
  3. Precursor Golem — When Precursor Golem enters thanks to Life // Death, it makes 2 tokens
  4. Conciliator's Duelist — When Conciliator's Duelist enters thanks to Life // Death, it draws you 1 card
  5. Master of Winds — When Master of Winds enters thanks to Life // Death, it draws you 2 cards
  6. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — When a creature enters thanks to Life // Death, Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom gains you 1 life
  7. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature enters thanks to Life // Death, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple gains you 1 life
  8. Gastal Raider — When Gastal Raider enters thanks to Life // Death, it makes an opponent discard a card
  9. Deluge Virtuoso — When Deluge Virtuoso enters thanks to Life // Death, it taps a creature an opponent controls

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

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Life is one).

  1. Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette — When Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette enters thanks to Life // Death, it becomes prepared

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