Ore-Scale Guardian

Ore-Scale Guardian

Creature — Dragon

Mana cost: {5}{R}{R}

How we read this card

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each land card in your graveyard.

static — costs less

Flying, haste

Causes: nothing.

Cares about: a land in a graveyard.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  12. Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast — Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library
  13. Identity Echo — Identity Echo can put Ore-Scale Guardian onto the battlefield from your library

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

a Dragon attacks — 474 cards in the game can cause this (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

When Ore-Scale Guardian attacks:

  1. Silumgar, the Drifting Death — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Utvara Hellkite — makes a token
  3. The Ur-Dragon — draws you that many cards
  4. Atarka, World Render — grants double strike
  5. Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury — gives +1/+0
  6. Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw — deals 2 damage
  7. Ojutai, Soul of Winter — taps a creature, artifact, enchantment, planeswalker or battle an opponent controls
  8. Dromoka, the Eternal — puts a counter on a permanent

a Dragon deals combat damage — 474 cards in the game can cause this (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

When Ore-Scale Guardian deals combat damage:

  1. Parapet Thrasher — triggers
  2. Broodcaller Scourge — puts a permanent onto the battlefield
  3. Zurgo and Ojutai — triggers

a nontoken Dragon enters the battlefield — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

When Ore-Scale Guardian enters:

  1. Lathliss, Dragon Queen — makes a token
  2. Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm — makes a token

a Dragon it applies enters with counters to — 488 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Dragonstorm Globe — Dragonstorm Globe gives Ore-Scale Guardian counters as it enters

487 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Dragon creature it boosts — 523 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Crucible of Fire — Crucible of Fire gives Ore-Scale Guardian bigger stats

522 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Dragon enters the battlefield — 524 cards in the game can cause this (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

When Ore-Scale Guardian enters:

  1. Dragon Tempest — deals damage
  2. Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory — gains you 3 life
  3. Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Ganax, Astral Hunter — makes a token
  5. Scourge of Valkas — deals damage
  6. Bladewing's Thrall — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Sarkhan, Soul Aflame — copies a permanent
  8. Teeming Dragonstorm — triggers
  9. Corroding Dragonstorm — triggers
  10. Roiling Dragonstorm — triggers

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

put a land into a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Destructive Urge — Destructive Urge puts cards into the graveyard, and Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  2. Epicenter — Epicenter puts cards into the graveyard, and Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  3. Barbarian Ring — When Barbarian Ring is in the graveyard, Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  4. Haven of the Spirit Dragon — When Haven of the Spirit Dragon is in the graveyard, Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  5. Edgewall Inn — When Edgewall Inn is in the graveyard, Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  6. Lazotep Quarry — Lazotep Quarry puts cards into the graveyard, and Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  7. Urza's Saga — When Urza's Saga is in the graveyard, Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  8. Inventors' Fair — When Inventors' Fair is in the graveyard, Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  9. Burning Sands — Burning Sands puts cards into the graveyard, and Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger
  10. Haunted Fengraf — When Haunted Fengraf is in the graveyard, Ore-Scale Guardian gets bigger

624 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

When Ore-Scale Guardian attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  3. Grim Javelineer — gives +1/+0
  4. Invisible Woman — triggers
  5. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  6. Guide of Souls — triggers
  7. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food
  8. Gossip's Talent — triggers
  9. Banon, the Returners' Leader — draws and discards
  10. Toph, Earthbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

When Ore-Scale Guardian attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Anthem of Rakdos — gives +2/+0
  3. Kindred Discovery — draws you 1 card
  4. Invasion of New Capenna // Holy Frazzle-Cannon — puts counters on a permanent
  5. Chorale of the Void — brings a card back
  6. Saw — sacrifices a creature
  7. Gisa's Favorite Shovel — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature
  8. Ultima Weapon — kills a creature an opponent controls

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

a creature blocks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

When Ore-Scale Guardian blocks:

  1. Tide of War — sacrifices a creature
  2. Dead-Iron Sledge — kills a creature

26 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 (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

When Ore-Scale Guardian enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  3. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  4. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  5. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  6. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

301 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 (Ore-Scale Guardian is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Ore-Scale Guardian enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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