Roiling Vortex

Roiling Vortex

Enchantment

Mana cost: {1}{R}

How we read this card

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to them.

triggered — deals 1 damage

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, this enchantment deals 5 damage to that player.

triggered — deals 5 damage

Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

Causes: anything deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: an upkeep, a spell is cast.

Works well with

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

When Roiling Vortex deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Soul-Scar Mage — puts that many counters on a permanent
  3. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  5. Dragonborn Champion — draws you 1 card
  6. Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph — deals 2 damage
  7. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  8. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  9. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  10. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library

36 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 (Roiling Vortex is one).

When Roiling Vortex 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. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  9. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  10. Lich's Mastery — triggers

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 (Roiling Vortex is one).

When Roiling Vortex is cast:

  1. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  2. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  3. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  5. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  6. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  7. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  8. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  9. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  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 (Roiling Vortex is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Roiling Vortex enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When Roiling Vortex 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. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

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

anything is dealt damage — 19,812 cards in the game can cause this (Roiling Vortex is one).

When Roiling Vortex is dealt damage:

  1. Massacre Girl, Most Wanted — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. War Elemental — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. Darien, King of Kjeldor — makes that many tokens
  4. Blood Hound — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  5. Chandra's Spitfire — gets +3/+0
  6. Wildfire Elemental — gives +1/+0
  7. Master of Barbs — gives +1/+0
  8. Swarmborn Giant — sacrifices itself
  9. Risona, Asari Commander — triggers
  10. Azor's Elocutors — triggers

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