Random Encounter

Random Encounter

Sorcery

Mana cost: {4}{R}{R}

How we read this card

Shuffle your library, then mill four cards. Put each creature card milled this way onto the battlefield. They gain haste.

on-cast —

on-cast — mills a card

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast — grants haste

At the beginning of the next end step, return those creatures to their owner's hand.

triggered —

Flashback {6}{R}{R}

Causes: shuffle a library, mill a card, put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: an end step, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Random Encounter:

  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 (Random Encounter is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Random Encounter:

  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 sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Random Encounter is one).

When Random Encounter 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 in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Random Encounter is one).

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

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Random Encounter:

  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.

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

When a creature enters thanks to Random Encounter:

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — makes a token
  2. Dual Nature — makes a token

31 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 (Random Encounter is one).

  1. Precursor Golem — When Precursor Golem enters thanks to Random Encounter, it makes 2 tokens
  2. Conciliator's Duelist — When Conciliator's Duelist enters thanks to Random Encounter, it draws you 1 card
  3. Fire Nation Salvagers — When Fire Nation Salvagers enters thanks to Random Encounter, it puts a counter on a creature or Vehicle
  4. Thieves' Guild Enforcer — When Thieves' Guild Enforcer enters thanks to Random Encounter, it mills a card
  5. Author of Shadows — When Author of Shadows enters thanks to Random Encounter, it brings a card back
  6. Landscaper Colos — When Landscaper Colos enters thanks to Random Encounter, it brings a card back
  7. Colossal Grave-Reaver — When Colossal Grave-Reaver enters thanks to Random Encounter, it mills a card
  8. Deluge Virtuoso — When Deluge Virtuoso enters thanks to Random Encounter, it taps a creature an opponent controls
  9. Cavalier of Thorns — When Cavalier of Thorns enters thanks to Random Encounter, it puts a land onto the battlefield
  10. Crabomination — When Crabomination enters thanks to Random Encounter, it exiles a card from an opponent's library

341 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 (Random Encounter is one).

  1. The Reaper, King No More — When The Reaper, King No More enters thanks to Random Encounter, it puts a counter on a creature
  2. Rosheen, Roaring Prophet — When Rosheen, Roaring Prophet enters thanks to Random Encounter, it mills a card
  3. Kotose, the Silent Spider — When Kotose, the Silent Spider enters thanks to Random Encounter, it brings a card back
  4. Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette — When Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette enters thanks to Random Encounter, it becomes prepared

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