Living Death

Living Death

Sorcery

Mana cost: {3}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast —

on-cast — blinks a permanent

Causes: exile a creature, a creature leaves a graveyard, sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, put anything onto the battlefield.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Living Death is one).

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Living Death, it triggers
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Living Death, it exiles a Nightmare

a nontoken creature is exiled — 995 cards in the game can cause this (Living Death is one).

  1. The War Games — When a creature is exiled thanks to Living Death, The War Games exiles a Warrior

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Living Death is one).

  1. Elemental Expressionist — When Elemental Expressionist is exiled thanks to Living Death, it makes a token
  2. Ashnod's Intervention — When a creature is exiled thanks to Living Death, Ashnod's Intervention brings a card back
  3. Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar — When a creature is exiled thanks to Living Death, Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Kaya, Spirits' Justice — When a creature is exiled thanks to Living Death, Kaya, Spirits' Justice copies a permanent
  5. Soulherder — When a creature is exiled thanks to Living Death, Soulherder puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Kaya's Ghostform — When a creature is exiled thanks to Living Death, Kaya's Ghostform blinks a permanent

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

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Living 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. Erebos's Titan — triggers

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

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Living Death is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Living Death:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Living Death is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Living Death:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

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

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Living Death is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature is exiled thanks to Living Death, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Living 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.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Living Death is one).

Living Death puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Living Death is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Living Death:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  3. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  5. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  6. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back

64 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 (Living Death is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Living Death puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back
  2. Havi, the All-Father — Living Death fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

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