Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette

Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette

Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room

Mana cost: {1}{B} // {4}{B}

How we read this card

Whenever one or more cards are put into your graveyard from your library, each opponent loses 1 life for each card type among those cards.

triggered — makes each opponent lose life

(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
When you unlock this door, mill three cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

triggered — mills a card

triggered — brings a card back

(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Causes: make a player lose life, mill a card, put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: anything goes to a graveyard, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

a Room is fully unlocked — 28 cards in the game can cause this (Polluted Cistern is one).

When Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette is fully unlocked:

  1. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  2. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  3. Unwilling Vessel — puts a possession counter on itself
  4. Gremlin Tamer — makes a token
  5. Fear of Infinity — returns itself from the graveyard
  6. Skullsnap Nuisance — surveils
  7. Scrabbling Skullcrab — mills a card
  8. Infernal Phantom — gets +2/+0
  9. Entity Tracker — draws you 1 card
  10. Fear of Sleep Paralysis — taps a creature

6 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 (Polluted Cistern is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

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

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Polluted Cistern is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette:

  1. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  2. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

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

put a creature into a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  2. Ayara, First of Locthwain — Ayara, First of Locthwain puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  3. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  4. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  5. Tainted Aether — Tainted Aether puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  6. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  7. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  8. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  9. Saw — Saw puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  10. Hot Soup — Hot Soup puts cards into the graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back

2,759 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Polluted Cistern is one).

When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
  2. Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
  3. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
  4. Aether Syphon — raises your speed
  5. Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
  6. Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
  7. Slick Imitator — raises your speed
  8. Nesting Bot — raises your speed
  9. Howlsquad Heavy — raises your speed
  10. Hour of Victory — raises your speed

46 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 (Polluted Cistern is one).

When Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette 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 (Polluted Cistern is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  4. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  5. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  6. Stalked Researcher — triggers
  7. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature

75 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 (Polluted Cistern is one).

  1. Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card — Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette fills your graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card needs

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

put anything into a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Lively Dirge — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Lively Dirge, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  2. Gravebreaker Lamia — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Gravebreaker Lamia, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  3. Oriq Loremage — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Oriq Loremage, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  4. Corpse Connoisseur — When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Corpse Connoisseur, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  5. Disciples of Gix — When an artifact hits the graveyard thanks to Disciples of Gix, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  6. Iname, Death Aspect — When a Spirit hits the graveyard thanks to Iname, Death Aspect, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  7. Cynical Loner — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Cynical Loner, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  8. Vile Entomber — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Vile Entomber, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  9. Burning-Rune Demon — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Burning-Rune Demon, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life
  10. Buried Alive — When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Buried Alive, Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette makes each opponent lose life

7,579 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Polluted Cistern is one).

  1. Airbender Ascension — When a creature enters thanks to Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette, Airbender Ascension puts a quest counter on itself

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