edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Mystic Retrieval

Mystic Retrieval

Sorcery

Mana cost: {3}{U}

How we read this card

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

on-cast — brings a card back

Flashback {2}{R}

Causes: an instant leaves a graveyard, a sorcery leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: an instant in a graveyard, a sorcery in a graveyard.

Works well with

an instant in a graveyard — 2 cards in the game can cause this (Mystic Retrieval is one).

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

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

  1. Murktide Regent — When Mystic Retrieval leaves a graveyard, Murktide Regent puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

When Mystic Retrieval leaves a graveyard:

  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 sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Mystic Retrieval is one).

When Mystic Retrieval is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

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

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Mystic Retrieval is one).

When Mystic Retrieval is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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