Monster Manual // Zoological Study

Monster Manual // Zoological Study

Artifact — Book // Sorcery — Adventure

Mana cost: {3}{G} // {2}{G}

How we read this card

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

activated {1}{G}, {T} —

Mill five cards, then return a creature card milled this way to your hand.

on-cast — mills a card

on-cast — brings a card back

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, mill a card, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

an Adventure sorcery is cast — 77 cards in the game can cause this (Monster Manual is one).

  1. Lucky Clover — When Monster Manual // Zoological Study is cast, Lucky Clover copies a spell

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Monster Manual // Zoological Study:

  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.

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Monster Manual // Zoological Study:

  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 (Monster Manual is one).

  1. Rankle and Torbran — Rankle and Torbran puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  2. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  3. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — Caesar, Legion's Emperor puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  4. Ayara, First of Locthwain — Ayara, First of Locthwain puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  5. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  6. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  7. Tainted Aether — Tainted Aether puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  8. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  9. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back
  10. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard that Monster Manual // Zoological Study can bring back

2,759 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact is cast — 3,683 cards in the game can cause this (Monster Manual is one).

When Monster Manual // Zoological Study is cast:

  1. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — copies a spell
  2. Sai, Master Thopterist — makes a token
  3. Ravenous Robots — makes a token
  4. Pinnacle Emissary — makes a token
  5. Mirrodin Besieged — makes a token
  6. Poetic Ingenuity — makes a token
  7. Digsite Engineer — makes a token
  8. Myrsmith — makes a token
  9. Riddlesmith — draws you 1 card
  10. Dr. Madison Li — puts a counter on a permanent you control

271 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 (Monster Manual is one).

  1. Spellweaver Volute — When Monster Manual // Zoological Study is cast, Spellweaver Volute copies a spell

433 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 (Monster Manual is one).

Monster Manual // Zoological Study puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — can bring back
  2. Harness the Storm — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Monster Manual is one).

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — When a creature enters thanks to Monster Manual // Zoological Study, Riku of Two Reflections makes a token

32 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 (Monster Manual is one).

  1. Precursor Golem — When Precursor Golem enters thanks to Monster Manual // Zoological Study, it makes 2 tokens
  2. Conciliator's Duelist — When Conciliator's Duelist enters thanks to Monster Manual // Zoological Study, it draws you 1 card

376 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 (Monster Manual is one).

  1. Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette — When Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette enters thanks to Monster Manual // Zoological Study, it becomes prepared

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