Patriarch's Desire

Patriarch's Desire

Enchantment — Aura

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/-2.

static — gives +2/-2

Enchanted creature gets an additional +2/-2 as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

static — gives +2/-2

Causes: nothing.

Cares about: a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

an Aura enters the battlefield — 1,257 cards in the game can cause this (Patriarch's Desire is one).

When Patriarch's Desire enters:

  1. Tanglespan Lookout — draws you 1 card
  2. Chishiro, the Shattered Blade — makes a token

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

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Patriarch's Desire is one).

When Patriarch's Desire 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 (Patriarch's Desire is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Patriarch's Desire enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Patriarch's Desire is one).

When Patriarch's Desire 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

58 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 (Patriarch's Desire is one).

  1. Windrider Wizard — Windrider Wizard fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  2. Master of Winds — Master of Winds fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  3. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — Sokka, Bold Boomeranger fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  4. Samwise Gamgee — Samwise Gamgee fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  5. Liliana the Repentant — Liliana the Repentant fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  6. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  7. Rankle and Torbran — Rankle and Torbran fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  8. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  9. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — Caesar, Legion's Emperor fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs
  10. Ayara, First of Locthwain — Ayara, First of Locthwain fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Patriarch's Desire needs

7,579 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 (Patriarch's Desire is one).

  1. Nature's Wrath — When Patriarch's Desire enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice a Swamp or permanent

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