Niko Defies Destiny

Niko Defies Destiny

Enchantment — Saga

Mana cost: {1}{W}{U}

How we read this card

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
You gain 2 life for each foretold card you own in exile.

triggered — gains you life

Add {W}{U}. Spend this mana only to foretell cards or cast spells that have foretell.

triggered — adds 2 mana

Return target card with foretell from your graveyard to your hand.

triggered — brings a card back

Causes: gain life, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

a Saga in a graveyard — 186 cards in the game can cause this (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

When Niko Defies Destiny is in the graveyard:

  1. Rydia, Summoner of Mist — can bring it back
  2. Satsuki, the Living Lore — can bring it back

an enchantment is sacrificed — 588 cards in the game can cause this (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

  1. Narci, Fable Singer — When you sacrifice Niko Defies Destiny, Narci, Fable Singer draws you 1 card

an enchantment in a graveyard — 983 cards in the game can cause this (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

When Niko Defies Destiny is in the graveyard:

  1. The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell — gets bigger
  2. Lotus-Eye Mystics — can bring it back
  3. Builder's Talent — can bring it back
  4. Tasigur, the Golden Fang — can bring it back
  5. Serpent of the Pass — gets bigger
  6. Emeria Shepherd — can bring it back
  7. Moment of Reckoning — can bring it back
  8. Serra Paragon — can bring it back
  9. Muldrotha, the Gravetide — can bring it back
  10. Deadbridge Chant — can bring it back

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

an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 987 cards in the game can cause this (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

When Niko Defies Destiny is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  1. Neva, Stalked by Nightmares — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Knight of Doves — makes a token
  3. Warehouse Tabby — makes a token
  4. Starfield Mystic — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Femeref Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  6. Savior of the Sleeping — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Ashiok's Reaper — draws you 1 card
  8. Wicked Visitor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  9. Martyr's Bond — makes an opponent sacrifice a permanent

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

When Niko Defies Destiny 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 leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

When a permanent leaves a graveyard thanks to Niko Defies Destiny:

  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.

anything is sacrificed — 3,450 cards in the game can cause this (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

  1. Gorbag of Minas Morgul — When you sacrifice Niko Defies Destiny, Gorbag of Minas Morgul triggers

3 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 (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

When Niko Defies Destiny is cast:

  1. Death to Our Enemies — makes a token
  2. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  3. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  5. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  6. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  7. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  8. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  9. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Argothian 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 (Niko Defies Destiny is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Niko Defies Destiny enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When Niko Defies Destiny 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. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature

71 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.

  1. Scrabbling Skullcrab — Scrabbling Skullcrab puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  2. Hedron Crab — Hedron Crab puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  3. Iceberg Cancrix — Iceberg Cancrix puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  4. Sultai Skullkeeper — Sultai Skullkeeper puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  5. Coral Colony — Coral Colony puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  6. Petra Sphinx — Petra Sphinx puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  7. Codecracker Hound — Codecracker Hound puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  8. Doorkeeper — Doorkeeper puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  9. Ertai's Familiar — Ertai's Familiar puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  10. Belltower Sphinx — Belltower Sphinx puts cards into the graveyard that Niko Defies Destiny can bring back
  11. Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card — Niko Defies Destiny fills your graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card needs

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