Plunge into Darkness

Plunge into Darkness

Instant

Mana cost: {1}{B}

How we read this card

Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way.

on-cast —

on-cast — gains you life

Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest.

on-cast —

on-cast — puts cards into your hand

on-cast —

Entwine {B}

Causes: you face a dilemma, sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, gain life, make a player lose life, exile a card.

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Plunge into Darkness, it triggers
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Plunge into Darkness, it exiles a Nightmare

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

When Plunge into Darkness poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Plunge into Darkness:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Plunge into Darkness:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

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

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

When Plunge into Darkness 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 is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Plunge into Darkness, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

Plunge into Darkness puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  9. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  10. Body Launderer — draws and discards

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

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

  1. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — When a creature dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness, Daxos, Blessed by the Sun gains you 1 life
  3. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — When a creature dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Shriveling Rot — When a creature dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  5. Jeskai Sage — When Jeskai Sage dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness, it draws you 1 card
  6. Cyclops Superconductor — When Cyclops Superconductor dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness, it triggers
  7. Saffi Eriksdotter — When a creature dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness, Saffi Eriksdotter sacrifices itself

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

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

  1. Cryptic Pursuit — When Plunge into Darkness is cast, Cryptic Pursuit triggers

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Plunge into Darkness, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (Plunge into Darkness is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Plunge into Darkness, it exiles itself

18 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 (Plunge into Darkness is one).

Plunge into Darkness fills your graveyard toward the:

  1. Havi, the All-Father — 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs

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