Open the Graves

Open the Graves

Enchantment

Mana cost: {3}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

triggered — makes a token

Causes: create a Zombie creature token, put a Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: a nontoken creature dies.

Works well with

a Zombie enters the battlefield — 795 cards in the game can cause this (Open the Graves is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Open the Graves:

  1. Noxious Ghoul — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Geralf, the Fleshwright — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Wayward Servant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Champion of the Perished — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Mummy Paramount — gets +1/+1
  6. Unconventional Tactics — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Binding Mummy — taps a creature or artifact

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Open the Graves is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Open the Graves:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Open the Graves is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Open the Graves makes a Zombie token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

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 (Open the Graves is one).

When Open the Graves 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 (Open the Graves is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Open the Graves enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Open the Graves is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Open the Graves:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (Open the Graves is one).

When Open the Graves makes a Zombie token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  3. Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

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

When Open the Graves 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

66 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 (Open the Graves is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Open the Graves:

  1. Airbender Ascension — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — gains you 1 life
  3. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — gains you 1 life
  4. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — gains you 1 life
  5. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — gains you 1 life
  6. Ayara, First of Locthwain — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  7. Blasting Station — untaps itself
  8. Mogg Bombers — sacrifices itself
  9. Flame-Kin War Scout — sacrifices itself
  10. Monkey Cage — sacrifices itself

343 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 (Open the Graves is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Open the Graves:

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Nature's Wrath — makes a player sacrifice a Swamp or permanent

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