Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil

Enchantment

Mana cost: {2}{B}{B}

How we read this card

This enchantment enters with seven hour counters on it.

static — arrives with counters

At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card and remove two hour counters from this enchantment.

triggered — draws you 1 card

triggered —

Your maximum hand size is equal to the number of hour counters on this enchantment.
Whenever you discard a card, you lose 1 life.

triggered —

Causes: put a counter on anything, draw a card, remove a counter from anything, make a player lose life.

Cares about: a card is discarded.

Works well with

discard a card — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Tinybones Joins Up — When Tinybones Joins Up makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  2. Cracked Skull — When Cracked Skull makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  3. Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel — When Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  4. Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor — When Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  5. Hazoret's Monument — When Hazoret's Monument makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  6. Pip-Boy 3000 — When Pip-Boy 3000 makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  7. Arm-Mounted Anchor — When a Pirate makes a player discard a card thanks to Arm-Mounted Anchor, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  8. Mask of Memory — When Mask of Memory makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  9. Paleontologist's Pick-Axe // Dinosaur Headdress — When Paleontologist's Pick-Axe // Dinosaur Headdress makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life
  10. Skeleton Key — When Skeleton Key makes a player discard a card, Midnight Oil makes you lose life

2,032 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Midnight Oil is one).

When Midnight Oil makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

46 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 (Midnight Oil is one).

When Midnight Oil is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

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

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Midnight Oil is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Midnight Oil enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Midnight Oil is one).

When Midnight Oil enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Midnight Oil is one).

When Midnight Oil makes a player draw a card:

  1. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  2. Teferi's Tutelage — mills a card
  3. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  5. The Locust God — makes a token
  6. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  7. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  8. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  9. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  10. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature

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

anything gets a counter — 4,415 cards in the game can cause this (Midnight Oil is one).

  1. All Will Be One — When Midnight Oil gets a counter, All Will Be One deals that much damage

7 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 (Midnight Oil is one).

  1. Nature's Wrath — When Midnight Oil enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice a Swamp or permanent

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