Rescue from the Underworld

Rescue from the Underworld

Instant

Mana cost: {4}{B}

How we read this card

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

on-cast —

Choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card and the sacrificed card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rescue from the Underworld.

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast —

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

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice, a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Rescue from the Underworld is one).

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Rescue from the Underworld, it triggers
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Rescue from the Underworld, it exiles a Nightmare

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Rescue from the Underworld:

  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.

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Rescue from the Underworld is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Rescue from the Underworld:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Rescue from the Underworld is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Rescue from the Underworld:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

19 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 (Rescue from the Underworld is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When Rescue from the Underworld is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Rescue from the Underworld:

  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 creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Rescue from the Underworld is one).

Rescue from the Underworld puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Rescue from the Underworld is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Rescue from the Underworld:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card

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

an instant it makes cheaper to cast — 3,773 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Rescue from the Underworld costs

3,772 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

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

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Rescue from the Underworld, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

32 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.

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Rescue from the Underworld fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Snarling Gorehound — Snarling Gorehound puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  3. Grim Javelineer — Grim Javelineer puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  4. Orochi Soul-Reaver — Orochi Soul-Reaver puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  5. Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel — Swordsman, Sharp Scoundrel puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  6. Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor — Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  7. Clandestine Meddler — Clandestine Meddler puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  8. Hazoret's Monument — Hazoret's Monument puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  9. Tricorder — Tricorder puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  10. Shard of Broken Glass — Shard of Broken Glass puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  11. Trepanation Blade — Trepanation Blade puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back

931 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 (Rescue from the Underworld is one).

  1. Odunos River Trawler — When Odunos River Trawler enters thanks to Rescue from the Underworld, it brings a card back
  2. Technomancer — When Technomancer enters thanks to Rescue from the Underworld, it mills a card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — When Overseer of the Damned enters thanks to Rescue from the Underworld, it kills a creature an opponent controls

447 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 (Rescue from the Underworld is one).

  1. Malik, Grim Manipulator — When Malik, Grim Manipulator enters thanks to Rescue from the Underworld, it triggers
  2. Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace — When Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace enters thanks to Rescue from the Underworld, it makes an opponent sacrifice a creature

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