Spreading Algae

Spreading Algae

Enchantment — Aura

Mana cost: {G}

How we read this card

Enchant Swamp
When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.

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: a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, an Aura leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a land becomes tapped.

Works well with

tap a land — 50 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Nature's Will — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Nature's Will, Spreading Algae kills it
  2. Fear of Exposure — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Fear of Exposure, Spreading Algae kills it
  3. Ring of Gix — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Ring of Gix, Spreading Algae kills it
  4. Elder Druid — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Elder Druid, Spreading Algae kills it
  5. Silt Crawler — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Silt Crawler, Spreading Algae kills it
  6. Wintermoon Mesa — When Wintermoon Mesa becomes tapped, Spreading Algae kills it
  7. Spelunking — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Spelunking, Spreading Algae kills it
  8. Amber Prison — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Amber Prison, Spreading Algae kills it
  9. Icy Manipulator — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Icy Manipulator, Spreading Algae kills it
  10. Sands of Time — When a land becomes tapped thanks to Sands of Time, Spreading Algae kills it

40 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a land in a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this (Spreading Algae is one).

Spreading Algae puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Slogurk, the Overslime — can bring back
  2. Zask, Skittering Swarmlord — can bring back
  3. Glacierwood Siege — can bring back
  4. Turntimber Sower — can bring back
  5. Serra Paragon — can bring back
  6. Muldrotha, the Gravetide — can bring back
  7. Deadbridge Chant — can bring back
  8. Invasion of Tolvada // The Broken Sky — can bring back
  9. Pull Through the Weft — can bring back
  10. Conduit of Worlds — can bring back

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

a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 636 cards in the game can cause this (Spreading Algae is one).

When a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Spreading Algae:

  1. Vastwood Zendikon — brings a card back
  2. Nissa's Zendikon — brings a card back
  3. Corrupted Zendikon — brings a card back
  4. Guardian Zendikon — brings a card back
  5. Crusher Zendikon — brings a card back
  6. Wind Zendikon — brings a card back
  7. Akki Raider — gets +1/+0
  8. Dingus Egg — deals 2 damage
  9. Genju of the Realm — returns itself from the graveyard

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

a land goes to a graveyard — 683 cards in the game can cause this (Spreading Algae is one).

When a land hits the graveyard thanks to Spreading Algae:

  1. The Gitrog Monster — draws you 1 card
  2. Skola Grovedancer — gains you 1 life
  3. Sand Scout — makes a token
  4. Crawling Sensation — makes a token
  5. Countryside Crusher — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

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

When Spreading Algae enters:

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

3 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 (Spreading Algae is one).

When Spreading Algae leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  4. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  5. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  6. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  7. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  8. Quintorius, History Chaser — 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.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Spreading Algae is one).

When Spreading Algae is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

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

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Spreading Algae is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Spreading Algae enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Spreading Algae is one).

When Spreading Algae enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

65 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 (Spreading Algae is one).

  1. Long Feng, Grand Secretariat — When a land dies thanks to Spreading Algae, Long Feng, Grand Secretariat puts a counter on a creature

6 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 (Spreading Algae is one).

Spreading Algae fills your graveyard toward the:

  1. Locked in the Cemetery — 5 or more cards Locked in the Cemetery needs
  2. Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card — 8 or more cards Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card needs

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