Pharika, God of Affliction

Pharika, God of Affliction

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Mana cost: {1}{B}{G}

How we read this card

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and green is less than seven, Pharika isn't a creature.
Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Its owner creates a 1/1 black and green Snake enchantment creature token with deathtouch.

activated {B}{G} — hits a graveyard

activated {B}{G} — makes a token

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: exile a creature, a creature leaves a graveyard, create a Snake creature token, create a Snake enchantment token, put a Snake creature token onto the battlefield, put a Snake enchantment token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Pharika is one).

When a creature is exiled thanks to Pharika, God of Affliction:

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  2. Soulherder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Pharika is one).

  1. Erebos's Titan — When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Pharika, God of Affliction, Erebos's Titan triggers

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

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Pharika is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature is exiled thanks to Pharika, God of Affliction, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

provide a creature to sacrifice — 2,720 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Birthing Ritual — Pharika, God of Affliction makes fodder for Birthing Ritual

2,719 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

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

When a Snake enters thanks to Pharika, God of Affliction:

  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 (Pharika is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Pharika, God of Affliction makes a Snake 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 (Pharika is one).

When Pharika, God of Affliction 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 (Pharika is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Pharika, God of Affliction enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When a Snake enters thanks to Pharika, God of Affliction:

  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 (Pharika is one).

When Pharika, God of Affliction makes a Snake 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 (Pharika is one).

When a Snake enters thanks to Pharika, God of Affliction:

  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

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

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Pharika is one).

When Pharika, God of Affliction is cast:

  1. God-Eternal Oketra — makes a token
  2. Primeval Bounty — makes a token
  3. Communal Brewing — it arrives with counters thanks to Communal Brewing
  4. Bloodbond March — brings a card back
  5. Dancing from Dark to Dawn — puts that spell's mana value counters on a creature
  6. Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder — makes that spell's mana value tokens
  7. Summon: Fenrir — it arrives with counters thanks to Summon: Fenrir
  8. Summon: Brynhildr — grants haste
  9. Skittering Horror — sacrifices itself
  10. Skittering Skirge — sacrifices itself

81 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 (Pharika is one).

When a Snake enters thanks to Pharika, God of Affliction:

  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. Mogg Bombers — sacrifices itself

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