Soulshriek

Soulshriek

Instant

Mana cost: {B}

How we read this card

Target creature you control gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

on-cast — gives +X/+0, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard

on-cast —

Causes: sacrifice a creature, a creature dies.

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

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

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Soulshriek, it triggers
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Soulshriek, it exiles a Nightmare

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Soulshriek is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Soulshriek:

  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 (Soulshriek is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Soulshriek:

  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.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Havengul Lich — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Havengul Lich can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Liliana the Repentant can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Paleoloth can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Chainer, Nightmare Adept can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Banon, the Returners' Leader can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Surgical Suite // Hospital Room can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Necromantic Thirst can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Krile Baldesion can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar can bring back
  11. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  12. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  13. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  14. Saw — Saw puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  15. Hot Soup — Hot Soup puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  16. Cracked Skull — Cracked Skull puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  17. Sporogenic Infection — Sporogenic Infection puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  18. Mire Blight — Mire Blight puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  19. Death Pits of Rath — Death Pits of Rath puts cards into the graveyard, and Soulshriek gets bigger
  20. Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder — When Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder is in the graveyard, Soulshriek gets bigger

1,324 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 (Soulshriek is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Soulshriek:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  9. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  10. Body Launderer — draws and discards

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 (Soulshriek is one).

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

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

a creature goes to a graveyard — 3,011 cards in the game can cause this (Soulshriek is one).

When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Soulshriek:

  1. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  2. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers
  3. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — triggers

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

anything is sacrificed — 3,450 cards in the game can cause this (Soulshriek is one).

  1. Gorbag of Minas Morgul — When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Soulshriek, Gorbag of Minas Morgul triggers

4 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 (Soulshriek is one).

When Soulshriek is cast:

  1. Death to Our Enemies — makes a token
  2. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  3. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  4. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  5. Bill Potts — copies an ability
  6. Cryptic Pursuit — triggers
  7. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell

430 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 (Soulshriek is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Soulshriek, 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 (Soulshriek is one).

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

15 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 (Soulshriek is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Soulshriek fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — Soulshriek fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  3. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Soulshriek puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

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