Maestros Ascendancy

Maestros Ascendancy

Enchantment

Mana cost: {U}{B}{R}

How we read this card

Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard by sacrificing a creature in addition to paying its other costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

static — brings a card back

static —

static —

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

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice, an instant in a graveyard, a sorcery in a graveyard.

Works well with

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

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

put an instant into a graveyard — 2 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Makeshift Mannequin — When Makeshift Mannequin is in the graveyard, Maestros Ascendancy can bring it back
  2. Supper for Spiders — When Supper for Spiders is in the graveyard, Maestros Ascendancy can bring it back

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

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

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

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Maestros Ascendancy:

  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 (Maestros Ascendancy is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Maestros Ascendancy:

  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 (Maestros Ascendancy is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When Maestros Ascendancy is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

When an instant or sorcery leaves a graveyard thanks to Maestros Ascendancy:

  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 (Maestros Ascendancy is one).

Maestros Ascendancy 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

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 (Maestros Ascendancy is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy:

  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 (Maestros Ascendancy is one).

  1. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — When a creature dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, Daxos, Blessed by the Sun gains you 1 life
  3. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — When a creature dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Shriveling Rot — When a creature dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  5. Jeskai Sage — When Jeskai Sage dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, it draws you 1 card
  6. Meathook Massacre II — When a creature dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, Meathook Massacre II brings a card back
  7. Cyclops Superconductor — When Cyclops Superconductor dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, it triggers
  8. Saffi Eriksdotter — When a creature dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, Saffi Eriksdotter sacrifices itself
  9. Treacherous Vampire — When Treacherous Vampire dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, it makes you lose life

454 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 (Maestros Ascendancy is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (Maestros Ascendancy is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Maestros Ascendancy, it exiles itself

15 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 (Maestros Ascendancy is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Maestros Ascendancy fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — Maestros Ascendancy fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  3. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Maestros Ascendancy puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

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