Pursue the Past

Pursue the Past

Sorcery

Mana cost: {R}{W}

How we read this card

You gain 2 life. You may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards.

on-cast — gains you 2 life

on-cast —

on-cast — draws you 2 cards

Flashback {2}{R}{W}

Causes: gain life, discard a card, draw a card.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Pursue the Past is one).

When Pursue the Past makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

52 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 (Pursue the Past is one).

When Pursue the Past 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.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Pursue the Past is one).

When Pursue the Past is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Pursue the Past is one).

When Pursue the Past makes a player draw a card:

  1. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  9. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature
  10. The Astonishing Ant-Man — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

57 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 (Pursue the Past is one).

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  2. Harness the Storm — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  3. Samwise Gamgee — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  4. Bloodbond March — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  5. Transplant Theorist — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  6. Heart-Shaped Herb — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  7. Wayward Angel — Pursue the Past fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  8. Rescue from the Underworld — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  9. Victimize — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  10. Bound // Determined — Pursue the Past puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined 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 (Pursue the Past is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Pursue the Past:

  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.