Rooting Moloch

Rooting Moloch

Creature — Lizard

Mana cost: {4}{R}

How we read this card

When this creature enters, exile target card with a cycling ability from your graveyard. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.

triggered — brings a card back

Cycling {2}

Causes: exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

a creature is discarded — 206 cards in the game can cause this (Rooting Moloch is one).

When Rooting Moloch makes a player discard a card:

  1. Wharf Infiltrator — makes a token
  2. Bone Miser — makes a token
  3. Hashaton, Scarab's Fist — makes a token
  4. Surly Badgersaur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer — brings a card back
  6. Conspiracy Theorist — brings a card back
  7. Veronica, Dissident Scribe — makes a token
  8. Green Goblin, Nemesis — puts a counter on a Goblin

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

a Lizard attacks — 230 cards in the game can cause this (Rooting Moloch is one).

  1. Hired Claw — When Rooting Moloch attacks, Hired Claw deals 1 damage

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Rooting Moloch is one).

When Rooting Moloch makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 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 (Rooting Moloch is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When Rooting Moloch is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
  2. God-Eternal Oketra — When God-Eternal Oketra is exiled thanks to Rooting Moloch, it triggers

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

When Rooting Moloch leaves a graveyard:

  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 goes to a graveyard — 3,011 cards in the game can cause this (Rooting Moloch is one).

When Rooting Moloch hits the graveyard:

  1. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  2. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  3. Voracious Brood — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  4. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers
  5. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — triggers
  6. Sefris of the Hidden Ways — triggers

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Rooting Moloch is one).

When Rooting Moloch makes a player draw a card:

  1. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  9. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature
  10. The Astonishing Ant-Man — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

57 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. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring it back
  2. Transplant Theorist — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Transplant Theorist can bring it back
  3. Heart-Shaped Herb — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Heart-Shaped Herb can bring it back
  4. Wayward Angel — Rooting Moloch fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  5. Rescue from the Underworld — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Rescue from the Underworld can bring it back
  6. Victimize — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Victimize can bring it back
  7. Bound // Determined — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Bound // Determined can bring it back
  8. Enlightened Confidant — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Enlightened Confidant can bring it back
  9. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring it back
  10. Aerith, Last Ancient — When Rooting Moloch is in the graveyard, Aerith, Last Ancient can bring it back
  11. Irreverent Gremlin — Irreverent Gremlin puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  12. Descendants' Fury — Descendants' Fury puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  13. Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act — Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  14. Fugitive Codebreaker — Fugitive Codebreaker puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  15. Bedlam Reveler — Bedlam Reveler puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  16. Dragon's Rage Channeler — Dragon's Rage Channeler puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  17. Relic Golem — Relic Golem puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  18. Ashling, Flame Dancer — Ashling, Flame Dancer puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  19. Tersa Lightshatter — Tersa Lightshatter puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back
  20. Quicksmith Genius — Quicksmith Genius puts cards into the graveyard that Rooting Moloch can bring back

544 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 (Rooting Moloch is one).

  1. Measure of Wickedness — When Rooting Moloch hits the graveyard, Measure of Wickedness gives an opponent control of itself

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

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Rooting Moloch is one).

  1. Bloodbond March — When Rooting Moloch is cast, Bloodbond March brings a card back

90 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 (Rooting Moloch is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — When Rooting Moloch enters, Samwise Gamgee makes a token

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