Rally the Ancestors

Rally the Ancestors

Instant

Mana cost: {X}{W}{W}

How we read this card

Return each creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile those creatures at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rally the Ancestors.

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast —

on-cast —

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, exile a creature, a creature leaves the battlefield, exile a card, anything leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Rally the Ancestors is one).

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, it triggers

a nontoken creature is exiled — 995 cards in the game can cause this (Rally the Ancestors is one).

  1. The War Games — When a creature is exiled thanks to Rally the Ancestors, The War Games exiles a Warrior

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Rally the Ancestors is one).

  1. Elemental Expressionist — When Elemental Expressionist is exiled thanks to Rally the Ancestors, it makes a token
  2. Ashnod's Intervention — When a creature is exiled thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Ashnod's Intervention brings a card back
  3. Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar — When a creature is exiled thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Kaya, Spirits' Justice — When a creature is exiled thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Kaya, Spirits' Justice copies a permanent
  5. Soulherder — When a creature is exiled thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Soulherder puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Kaya's Ghostform — When a creature is exiled thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Kaya's Ghostform blinks a permanent

1 other card cares 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 (Rally the Ancestors is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Rally the Ancestors:

  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 is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Rally the Ancestors is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature is exiled thanks to Rally the Ancestors, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Rally the Ancestors:

  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.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Rally the Ancestors is one).

When Rally the Ancestors is cast:

  1. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  2. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  3. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  4. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  6. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls

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

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Rally the Ancestors is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors:

  1. Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Splinter, the Mentor — makes a token
  3. Rat King, Pale Piper — makes a token
  4. Dual Nature — exiles a creature

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

  1. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom gains you 1 life
  2. Extractor Demon — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Extractor Demon mills a card
  3. Aang, Airbending Master — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Aang, Airbending Master puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Dour Port-Mage — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Dour Port-Mage draws you 1 card
  5. Vela the Night-Clad — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Vela the Night-Clad makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Taeko, the Patient Avalanche — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Taeko, the Patient Avalanche scries
  7. Phantasmal Mount — When Phantasmal Mount leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, it triggers
  8. Funeral March — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Funeral March makes a player sacrifice a creature
  9. Sally Sparrow — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Sally Sparrow triggers
  10. Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rally the Ancestors, Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior triggers

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Rally the Ancestors is one).

When a creature enters thanks to Rally the Ancestors:

  1. Samwise Gamgee — makes a token
  2. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — grants haste
  3. Preston, the Vanisher — makes a token
  4. Lonis, Cryptozoologist — triggers

29 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 (Rally the Ancestors is one).

  1. Precursor Golem — When Precursor Golem enters thanks to Rally the Ancestors, it makes 2 tokens
  2. Conciliator's Duelist — When Conciliator's Duelist enters thanks to Rally the Ancestors, it draws you 1 card

306 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 (Rally the Ancestors is one).

  1. Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival — When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival enters thanks to Rally the Ancestors, it shrinks a creature by -2/-2

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