Return of the Nightstalkers

Return of the Nightstalkers

Sorcery

Mana cost: {5}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Return all Nightstalker permanent cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then destroy all Swamps you control.

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast —

Causes: put a Nightstalker permanent onto the battlefield, a Nightstalker permanent leaves a graveyard, a Swamp land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield.

Cares about: a Nightstalker permanent in a graveyard.

Works well with

a Swamp is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 14 cards in the game can cause this (Return of the Nightstalkers is one).

  1. Genju of the Fens — When a Swamp is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Return of the Nightstalkers, Genju of the Fens returns itself from the graveyard

a permanent enters the battlefield — 152 cards in the game can cause this (Return of the Nightstalkers is one).

When a Nightstalker enters thanks to Return of the Nightstalkers:

  1. Dawn-Blessed Pennant — gains you 1 life
  2. River Kelpie — draws you 1 card
  3. Altar of the Brood — mills a card
  4. Amareth, the Lustrous — searches a library
  5. Rimefire Torque — puts a charge counter on itself
  6. Eye of Singularity — kills a permanent

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

a land in a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this (Return of the Nightstalkers is one).

Return of the Nightstalkers puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Slogurk, the Overslime — can bring back
  2. Zask, Skittering Swarmlord — can bring back
  3. Glacierwood Siege — can bring back
  4. Turntimber Sower — can bring back
  5. Serra Paragon — can bring back
  6. Muldrotha, the Gravetide — can bring back
  7. Deadbridge Chant — can bring back
  8. Invasion of Tolvada // The Broken Sky — can bring back
  9. Pull Through the Weft — can bring back
  10. Conduit of Worlds — can bring back

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

a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 636 cards in the game can cause this (Return of the Nightstalkers is one).

When a Swamp is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Return of the Nightstalkers:

  1. Vastwood Zendikon — brings a card back
  2. Nissa's Zendikon — brings a card back
  3. Corrupted Zendikon — brings a card back
  4. Guardian Zendikon — brings a card back
  5. Crusher Zendikon — brings a card back
  6. Wind Zendikon — brings a card back
  7. Akki Raider — gets +1/+0
  8. Dingus Egg — deals 2 damage
  9. Genju of the Realm — returns itself from the graveyard

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a land goes to a graveyard — 683 cards in the game can cause this (Return of the Nightstalkers is one).

When a Swamp hits the graveyard thanks to Return of the Nightstalkers:

  1. The Gitrog Monster — draws you 1 card
  2. Skola Grovedancer — gains you 1 life
  3. Sand Scout — makes a token
  4. Crawling Sensation — makes a token
  5. Countryside Crusher — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

6 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 (Return of the Nightstalkers is one).

When a Nightstalker leaves a graveyard thanks to Return of the Nightstalkers:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  4. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  5. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  6. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  7. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  8. Quintorius, History Chaser — 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 (Return of the Nightstalkers is one).

When Return of the Nightstalkers 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 (Return of the Nightstalkers is one).

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Return of the Nightstalkers puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back

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