Skeletal Scrying

Skeletal Scrying

Instant

Mana cost: {X}{B}

How we read this card

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.

on-cast —

You draw X cards and you lose X life.

on-cast — draws you X cards

on-cast —

Causes: exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, draw a card, make a player lose life.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Skeletal Scrying is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When Skeletal Scrying is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

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

When Skeletal Scrying 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.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Skeletal Scrying is one).

When Skeletal Scrying 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 (Skeletal Scrying is one).

When Skeletal Scrying 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 (Skeletal Scrying is one).

When Skeletal Scrying 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.

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Skeletal Scrying is one).

When Skeletal Scrying 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.