Rakdos Joins Up

Rakdos Joins Up

Legendary Enchantment

Mana cost: {3}{B}{R}

How we read this card

When Rakdos Joins Up enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

triggered — brings a card back

triggered — puts 2 counters on it

Whenever a legendary creature you control dies, Rakdos Joins Up deals damage equal to that creature's power to target opponent.

triggered — deals that creature's power damage

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, put a counter on anything, anything deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: a creature dies, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Rakdos Joins Up:

  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 (Rakdos Joins Up is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Rakdos Joins Up:

  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.

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

  1. Rankle and Torbran — Rankle and Torbran puts cards into the graveyard that Rakdos Joins Up can bring back
  2. War Elemental — When War Elemental is in the graveyard, Rakdos Joins Up can bring it back
  3. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Rakdos Joins Up can bring back
  4. Mogg Bombers — When Mogg Bombers is in the graveyard, Rakdos Joins Up can bring it back
  5. Flame-Kin War Scout — When Flame-Kin War Scout is in the graveyard, Rakdos Joins Up can bring it back
  6. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Rakdos Joins Up can bring back
  7. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Rakdos Joins Up can bring back
  8. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard that Rakdos Joins Up can bring back
  9. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard that Rakdos Joins Up can bring back
  10. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard that Rakdos Joins Up can bring back

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

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Rakdos Joins Up is one).

When Rakdos Joins Up deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  4. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  5. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  6. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  7. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  8. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  9. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

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

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Rakdos Joins Up is one).

When Rakdos Joins Up makes a player lose life:

  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 (Rakdos Joins Up is one).

When Rakdos Joins Up is cast:

  1. Soul-Scar Mage — gets +1/+1
  2. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  3. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  4. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  5. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  6. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  7. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  8. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  9. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  10. Artist's Talent — draws and discards

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 (Rakdos Joins Up is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Rakdos Joins Up enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When Rakdos Joins Up enters:

  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. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature

71 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 (Rakdos Joins Up is one).

  1. Goblin Goliath — When Goblin Goliath enters thanks to Rakdos Joins Up, it makes a token
  2. Airbender Ascension — When a creature enters thanks to Rakdos Joins Up, Airbender Ascension puts a quest counter on itself

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