Slow Motion

Slow Motion

Enchantment — Aura

Mana cost: {2}{U}

How we read this card

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player sacrifices that creature unless they pay {2}.

triggered —

When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

triggered — brings a card back

Causes: sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, an Aura leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: an upkeep.

Works well with

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

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Slow Motion, it exiles a Nightmare

an Aura enters the battlefield — 1,257 cards in the game can cause this (Slow Motion is one).

When Slow Motion enters:

  1. Tanglespan Lookout — draws you 1 card
  2. Chishiro, the Shattered Blade — makes a token

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 (Slow Motion is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Slow Motion:

  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 (Slow Motion is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Slow Motion:

  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

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

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

When Slow Motion 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 in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Slow Motion is one).

Slow Motion puts cards into the graveyard that:

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

When a creature dies thanks to Slow Motion:

  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 creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Slow Motion is one).

  1. Abduction — When a creature dies thanks to Slow Motion, Abduction brings a card back
  2. Fate Foretold — When a creature dies thanks to Slow Motion, Fate Foretold makes a player draw 1 card
  3. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature dies thanks to Slow Motion, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — When a creature dies thanks to Slow Motion, Daxos, Blessed by the Sun gains you 1 life
  5. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — When a creature dies thanks to Slow Motion, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Shriveling Rot — When a creature dies thanks to Slow Motion, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  7. Jeskai Sage — When Jeskai Sage dies thanks to Slow Motion, it draws you 1 card
  8. Cyclops Superconductor — When Cyclops Superconductor dies thanks to Slow Motion, it triggers
  9. Saffi Eriksdotter — When a creature dies thanks to Slow Motion, Saffi Eriksdotter sacrifices itself
  10. Treacherous Vampire — When Treacherous Vampire dies thanks to Slow Motion, it makes you lose life

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Slow Motion is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Slow Motion, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (Slow Motion is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Slow Motion, it exiles itself

14 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 (Slow Motion is one).

Slow Motion fills your graveyard toward the:

  1. Havi, the All-Father — 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  3. Locked in the Cemetery — 5 or more cards Locked in the Cemetery needs

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