Rowan's Grim Search

Rowan's Grim Search

Instant

Mana cost: {2}{B}

How we read this card

Bargain
If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard.

on-cast — sets the top of a library

on-cast — mills a card

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

on-cast — draws you 2 cards

on-cast —

Causes: mill a card, draw a card, make a player lose life.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Rowan's Grim Search is one).

When Rowan's Grim Search makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

46 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 (Rowan's Grim Search is one).

When Rowan's Grim Search makes a player draw a card:

  1. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  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.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Rowan's Grim Search is one).

When Rowan's Grim Search is cast:

  1. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  2. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  3. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  4. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  6. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls

427 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 (Rowan's Grim Search is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Transplant Theorist — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  4. Heart-Shaped Herb — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  5. Wayward Angel — Rowan's Grim Search fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  6. Rescue from the Underworld — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  7. Victimize — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  8. Bound // Determined — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  9. Enlightened Confidant — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back
  10. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Rowan's Grim Search puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 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 (Rowan's Grim Search is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Rowan's Grim Search:

  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.

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Rowan's Grim Search is one).

When Rowan's Grim Search is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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