Lorehold Excavation

Lorehold Excavation

Enchantment

Mana cost: {R}{W}

How we read this card

At the beginning of your end step, mill a card. If a land card was milled this way, you gain 1 life. Otherwise, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

triggered — mills a card

triggered — gains you 1 life

triggered — deals 1 damage

Create a tapped 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

activated {5}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard —

activated {5}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard — makes a token

Causes: mill a card, gain life, anything deals noncombat damage, exile a creature, a creature leaves a graveyard, create a Spirit creature token, put a Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: an end step.

Works well with

a Spirit enters the battlefield — 863 cards in the game can cause this (Lorehold Excavation is one).

When a Spirit enters thanks to Lorehold Excavation:

  1. Mausoleum Wanderer — gets +1/+1
  2. Drogskol Cavalry — gains you 2 life
  3. Vanguard of the Restless — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Nebelgast Herald — taps a creature an opponent controls

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

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

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

When a creature is exiled thanks to Lorehold Excavation:

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  2. Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Kaya, Spirits' Justice — copies a permanent
  4. Soulherder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. 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 (Lorehold Excavation is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Lorehold Excavation:

  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.

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Lorehold Excavation is one).

When Lorehold Excavation gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

84 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 (Lorehold Excavation is one).

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

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Lorehold Excavation:

  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.

provide a creature to sacrifice — 2,720 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Industrial Advancement — Lorehold Excavation makes fodder for Industrial Advancement
  2. Divergent Transformations — Lorehold Excavation makes fodder for Divergent Transformations
  3. Transmogrify — Lorehold Excavation makes fodder for Transmogrify

2,717 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Lorehold Excavation is one).

When a Spirit enters thanks to Lorehold Excavation:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Lorehold Excavation is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Lorehold Excavation makes a Spirit token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

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

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Lorehold Excavation is one).

When Lorehold Excavation deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  4. Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph — deals 2 damage
  5. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  6. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  7. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  8. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  9. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  10. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

36 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 (Lorehold Excavation is one).

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — When Lorehold Excavation makes a player lose life, Far Fortune, End Boss raises your speed

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

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Lorehold Excavation is one).

When Lorehold Excavation is cast:

  1. Soul-Scar Mage — gets +1/+1
  2. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  3. Artist's Talent — draws and discards

262 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 (Lorehold Excavation is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Lorehold Excavation puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

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