Slag Strider

Slag Strider

Creature — Elemental

Mana cost: {5}{R}{R}

How we read this card

Affinity for artifacts
This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

activated {1}, Sacrifice an artifact —

activated {1}, Sacrifice an artifact — deals 1 damage

Causes: sacrifice an artifact, an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, anything deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: an artifact to sacrifice.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  12. Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast — Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library
  13. Identity Echo — Identity Echo can put Slag Strider onto the battlefield from your library

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

an Elemental enters the battlefield — 754 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

When Slag Strider enters:

  1. Champion of the Path — deals its power damage
  2. Risen Reef — puts a land onto the battlefield

an artifact is sacrificed — 761 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

  1. Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force deals the sacrificed artifact's mana value damage
  2. Carrot Cake — When Carrot Cake is sacrificed thanks to Slag Strider, it makes a token
  3. Heaped Harvest — When Heaped Harvest is sacrificed thanks to Slag Strider, it searches a library
  4. Moonstone Eulogist — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Moonstone Eulogist puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Magnetic Snuffler — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Magnetic Snuffler puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Gleaming Geardrake — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Gleaming Geardrake puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Esoteric Duplicator — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Esoteric Duplicator makes a token
  8. Biotech Specialist — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Biotech Specialist deals 2 damage
  9. Jaws, Relentless Predator — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Jaws, Relentless Predator deals 1 damage
  10. Crime Novelist — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Crime Novelist puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

an artifact in a graveyard — 1,226 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

Slag Strider puts cards into the:

  1. Loran, Disciple of History — graveyard that Loran, Disciple of History can bring back
  2. The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell — graveyard, and The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell gets bigger
  3. Builder's Talent — graveyard that Builder's Talent can bring back
  4. Trading Post — graveyard that Trading Post can bring back
  5. Tasigur, the Golden Fang — graveyard that Tasigur, the Golden Fang can bring back
  6. Serpent of the Pass — graveyard, and Serpent of the Pass gets bigger
  7. Emeria Shepherd — graveyard that Emeria Shepherd can bring back
  8. Goblin Engineer — graveyard that Goblin Engineer can bring back
  9. Daretti, Rocketeer Engineer — graveyard that Daretti, Rocketeer Engineer can bring back
  10. Scrap Welder — graveyard that Scrap Welder can bring back

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

a nontoken artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 1,226 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider:

  1. Pia's Revolution — deals 3 damage
  2. Farid, Enterprising Salvager — makes a token
  3. Psychomancer — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Sly Requisitioner — makes a token
  5. Slagstone Refinery — makes a token
  6. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

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

an artifact goes to a graveyard — 1,250 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

When an artifact hits the graveyard thanks to Slag Strider:

  1. Ultron the Annihilator — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Ultron's Auxiliary — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 1,254 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider:

  1. Tezzeret's Touch — brings a card back
  2. Krenko, Baron of Tin Street — makes a token
  3. Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Shard of the Void Dragon — puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself
  5. Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Gremlin Infestation — makes a token
  7. Summoning Station — untaps itself
  8. Marionette Master — makes each opponent lose life equal to this creature's power
  9. Fangren Marauder — gains you 5 life
  10. Disciple of the Vault — makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

an artifact leaves the battlefield — 1,680 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

  1. Sludge Strider — When you sacrifice an artifact to Slag Strider, Sludge Strider makes a player lose 1 life

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

When Slag Strider 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. Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph — deals 2 damage

41 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 (Slag Strider is one).

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — When Slag Strider makes a player lose life, Far Fortune, End Boss raises your speed

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — When Slag Strider attacks, Shaun, Father of Synths makes a token

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Slag Strider is one).

When Slag Strider attacks:

  1. Invasion of New Capenna // Holy Frazzle-Cannon — puts counters on a permanent
  2. Anthem of Rakdos — gives +2/+0

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