Sarkhan the Mad

Sarkhan the Mad

Legendary Planeswalker — Sarkhan

Mana cost: {3}{B}{R}

How we read this card

Reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Sarkhan deals damage to himself equal to that card's mana value.

activated 0 — puts cards into your hand

activated 0 — deals that card's mana value damage

Target creature's controller sacrifices it, then that player creates a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

activated −2 —

activated −2 — makes a token

Each Dragon creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player or planeswalker.

activated −4 — deals its power damage

Causes: anything deals noncombat damage, sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, create a Dragon creature token, put a Dragon creature token onto the battlefield, a planeswalker deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

  1. Gollum, Patient Plotter — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Sarkhan the Mad, it has the Ring tempt you
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Sarkhan the Mad, it exiles a Nightmare

a planeswalker it grants abilities to — 312 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Way of the Deathbringer — Way of the Deathbringer gives Sarkhan the Mad an extra ability
  2. Way of the Pyromancer — Way of the Pyromancer gives Sarkhan the Mad an extra ability
  3. Way of the Warlord — Way of the Warlord gives Sarkhan the Mad an extra ability

309 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker is cast — 361 cards in the game can cause this (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

When Sarkhan the Mad is cast:

  1. Invasion of Regatha // Disciples of the Inferno — gets +1/+1
  2. Jaya's Phoenix — returns itself from the graveyard
  3. Interplanar Beacon — gains you 1 life
  4. Defiler of Instinct — deals 1 damage
  5. Defiler of Flesh — gives +1/+1
  6. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  7. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  8. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  9. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

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

a planeswalker enters the battlefield — 366 cards in the game can cause this (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

  1. Liliana the Repentant — When a Dragon enters thanks to Sarkhan the Mad, Liliana the Repentant mills a card
  2. Liliana the Faultless — When a Dragon enters thanks to Sarkhan the Mad, Liliana the Faultless gains you 1 life
  3. Builder's Talent — When Sarkhan the Mad enters, Builder's Talent puts a counter on a creature
  4. Brainstealer Dragon — When a Dragon enters thanks to Sarkhan the Mad, Brainstealer Dragon makes a player lose life equal to its mana value
  5. Cloudstone Curio — When a Dragon enters thanks to Sarkhan the Mad, Cloudstone Curio triggers

a Dragon enters the battlefield — 524 cards in the game can cause this (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

When a Dragon enters thanks to Sarkhan the Mad:

  1. Dragon Tempest — deals damage
  2. Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory — gains you 3 life
  3. Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Ganax, Astral Hunter — makes a token
  5. Scourge of Valkas — deals damage
  6. Bladewing's Thrall — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Sarkhan, Soul Aflame — copies a permanent
  8. Teeming Dragonstorm — triggers
  9. Corroding Dragonstorm — triggers
  10. Roiling Dragonstorm — triggers

4 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 (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Sarkhan the Mad:

  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 (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Sarkhan the Mad:

  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

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

provide a creature to sacrifice — 2,720 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Sarkhan the Mad makes fodder for Kethek, Crucible Goliath
  2. Industrial Advancement — Sarkhan the Mad makes fodder for Industrial Advancement
  3. Divergent Transformations — Sarkhan the Mad makes fodder for Divergent Transformations
  4. Transmogrify — Sarkhan the Mad makes fodder for Transmogrify

2,716 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

Sarkhan the Mad puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Paleoloth — can bring back
  3. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  4. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  5. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  6. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  7. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  8. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back
  9. Ruthless Technomancer — can bring back
  10. Forum Necroscribe — 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 (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Sarkhan the Mad:

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

60 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 (Sarkhan the Mad is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Sarkhan the Mad fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

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