Living Lore

Living Lore

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Mana cost: {3}{U}

How we read this card

As this creature enters, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard.

static —

Living Lore's power and toughness are each equal to the exiled card's mana value.

static — makes your creatures bigger

Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you may sacrifice it. If you do, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

triggered —

triggered —

Causes: exile an instant, exile a sorcery, an instant leaves a graveyard, a sorcery leaves a graveyard, sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, cast an instant, cast a sorcery.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

an instant leaves a graveyard — 202 cards in the game can cause this (Living Lore is one).

  1. Murktide Regent — When an instant leaves a graveyard thanks to Living Lore, Murktide Regent puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

When you sacrifice Living Lore:

  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 Lore is one).

When you sacrifice Living Lore:

  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 Lore is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When an instant or sorcery is exiled thanks to Living Lore, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

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

When an instant or sorcery leaves a graveyard thanks to Living Lore:

  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 Lore is one).

When Living Lore is in the graveyard:

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

799 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 Lore is one).

When Living Lore dies:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  9. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  10. Body Launderer — draws and discards

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

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Living Lore is one).

When Living Lore dies:

  1. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — gains you 1 life
  3. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Shriveling Rot — makes a player lose life equal to its toughness

461 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 (Living Lore is one).

When an instant is cast thanks to Living Lore:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Cyclops Superconductor — gets +1/+1
  3. Jeskai Sage — gets +1/+1

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Living Lore is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When Living Lore leaves the battlefield, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

34 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 Lore is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Living Lore fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Living Lore is one).

When Living Lore attacks:

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — makes a token
  2. Grim Javelineer — gives +1/+0
  3. Clavileño, First of the Blessed — turns something into a creature

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Living Lore is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When Living Lore attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

223 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 (Living Lore is one).

When Living Lore is cast:

  1. God-Eternal Oketra — makes a token
  2. Quirion Beastcaller — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

89 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 (Living Lore is one).

  1. Boss's Chauffeur — When Living Lore enters, Boss's Chauffeur puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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