edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Sorcerous Squall

Sorcerous Squall

Sorcery

Mana cost: {6}{U}{U}{U}

How we read this card

Delve

static —

Target opponent mills nine cards, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

on-cast — mills a card

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast —

Causes: mill a card, cast an instant, cast a sorcery, an instant leaves a graveyard, a sorcery leaves a graveyard, exile a spell, a spell leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: an instant in a graveyard, a sorcery in a graveyard, a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

an instant in a graveyard — 2 cards in the game can cause this (Sorcerous Squall is one).

  1. Makeshift Mannequin — When Makeshift Mannequin is in the graveyard, Sorcerous Squall can bring it back
  2. Supper for Spiders — When Supper for Spiders is in the graveyard, Sorcerous Squall can bring it back

an instant leaves a graveyard — 202 cards in the game can cause this (Sorcerous Squall is one).

  1. Murktide Regent — When Sorcerous Squall leaves a graveyard, Murktide Regent puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a card is milled — 772 cards in the game can cause this (Sorcerous Squall is one).

  1. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — When a permanent makes a player mill a card thanks to Sorcerous Squall, Lo and Li, Royal Advisors puts a counter on an Advisor

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

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

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

When Sorcerous Squall 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 sorcery it makes cheaper to cast — 3,585 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Sorcerous Squall costs
  2. Case of the Ransacked Lab — Case of the Ransacked Lab reduces what Sorcerous Squall costs
  3. Jace's Sanctum — Jace's Sanctum reduces what Sorcerous Squall costs
  4. Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death — Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death reduces what Sorcerous Squall costs
  5. Mindsplice Apparatus — Mindsplice Apparatus reduces what Sorcerous Squall costs
  6. Arcane Melee — Arcane Melee reduces what Sorcerous Squall costs
  7. Font of Magic — Font of Magic reduces what Sorcerous Squall costs

3,578 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Sorcerous Squall is one).

When Sorcerous Squall is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  3. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  4. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  5. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  6. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — brings a card back
  7. Metallurgic Summonings — makes a token
  8. Storm-Kiln Artist — makes a token
  9. Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
  10. Mica, Reader of Ruins — sacrifices an artifact

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