Lively Dirge

Lively Dirge

Sorcery

Mana cost: {1}{B}

How we read this card

Spree

on-cast —

+ {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.

on-cast — searches a library

on-cast —

on-cast —

+ {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

on-cast — brings a card back

Causes: you face a dilemma, search your library, put anything into a graveyard, shuffle a library, put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Lively Dirge is one).

When Lively Dirge poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Lively Dirge:

  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 (Lively Dirge is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Lively Dirge:

  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.

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

When Lively Dirge 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 card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Lively Dirge is one).

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  2. Harness the Storm — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  3. Samwise Gamgee — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  4. Bloodbond March — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  5. Transplant Theorist — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  6. Heart-Shaped Herb — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  7. Wayward Angel — Lively Dirge fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  8. Rescue from the Underworld — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  9. Victimize — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  10. Bound // Determined — Lively Dirge puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring 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 (Lively Dirge is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Lively Dirge:

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Duskmantle Guildmage — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Devourer of Memory — gets +1/+1
  4. Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette — makes each opponent lose life
  5. Vulturous Zombie — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  7. Bloodchief Ascension — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  8. Compost — draws you 1 card
  9. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  10. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

1 other card cares 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 (Lively Dirge is one).

When a creature enters thanks to Lively Dirge:

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — makes a token
  2. Dual Nature — makes a token

31 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 (Lively Dirge is one).

  1. Conciliator's Duelist — When Conciliator's Duelist enters thanks to Lively Dirge, it draws you 1 card
  2. Thieves' Guild Enforcer — When Thieves' Guild Enforcer enters thanks to Lively Dirge, it mills a card
  3. Deluge Virtuoso — When Deluge Virtuoso enters thanks to Lively Dirge, it taps a creature an opponent controls

348 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 (Lively Dirge is one).

  1. Wan Shi Tong, Librarian — When Wan Shi Tong, Librarian enters thanks to Lively Dirge, it puts X counters on a permanent
  2. Rosheen, Roaring Prophet — When Rosheen, Roaring Prophet enters thanks to Lively Dirge, it mills a card

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