Purple Pentapus

Purple Pentapus

Creature — Octopus Starfish

Mana cost: {B}

How we read this card

When this creature enters, surveil 1.

triggered — surveils

Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

activated {2}{B}, Tap an untapped creature you control — brings a card back

Causes: surveil, put anything onto the battlefield, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

you surveil — 233 cards in the game can cause this (Purple Pentapus is one).

When Purple Pentapus surveils:

  1. Mirko, Obsessive Theorist — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review — gives +1/+0
  3. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History — gets +1/+1
  4. Saheeli, Consul of Oversight — makes a token
  5. Copy Catchers — makes a token
  6. Proft, Consulting Detective — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Matoya, Archon Elder — draws you 1 card
  8. Denzilore Fatehold — puts a counter on a creature
  9. Whispering Snitch — deals 1 damage
  10. Blood Operative — makes you lose life

5 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 (Purple Pentapus is one).

When Purple Pentapus leaves a graveyard:

  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. Erebos's Titan — triggers

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 (Purple Pentapus is one).

When Purple Pentapus leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  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.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Purple Pentapus is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Thor, God of Thunder — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Thor, God of Thunder can bring back
  4. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  5. Harness the Storm — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  6. Transplant Theorist — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  7. Heart-Shaped Herb — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  8. Wayward Angel — Purple Pentapus fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  9. Rescue from the Underworld — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  10. Victimize — Purple Pentapus puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back

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

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Purple Pentapus is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Purple Pentapus:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Purple Pentapus is one).

When Purple Pentapus attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  3. Invisible Woman — triggers
  4. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  5. Guide of Souls — triggers
  6. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food

121 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 (Purple Pentapus is one).

When Purple Pentapus attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Saw — sacrifices a creature

196 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 (Purple Pentapus is one).

When Purple Pentapus enters:

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

344 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 (Purple Pentapus is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Purple Pentapus enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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