Starting Column

Starting Column

Artifact

Mana cost: {3}

How we read this card

Start your engines!

triggered — raises your speed

Add one mana of any color.

activated {T} — adds 1 mana

Draw two cards, then discard a card.

activated {T}, Sacrifice this artifact —

activated {T}, Sacrifice this artifact — draws you 2 cards

activated {T}, Sacrifice this artifact —

Causes: sacrifice an artifact, an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card, discard a card.

Cares about: life is lost.

Works well with

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

When you sacrifice Starting Column:

  1. Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force — deals the sacrificed artifact's mana value damage
  2. Moonstone Eulogist — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Magnetic Snuffler — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Gleaming Geardrake — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Esoteric Duplicator — makes a token
  6. Biotech Specialist — deals 2 damage
  7. Jaws, Relentless Predator — deals 1 damage
  8. Crime Novelist — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

6 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 (Starting Column is one).

When Starting Column is in the graveyard:

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

When Starting Column is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  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 (Starting Column is one).

When Starting Column hits the graveyard:

  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 (Starting Column is one).

When Starting Column is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  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 (Starting Column is one).

  1. Sludge Strider — When Starting Column leaves the battlefield, Sludge Strider makes a player lose 1 life

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Starting Column is one).

When Starting Column makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

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

make a player lose life — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Glaring Fleshraker — When Glaring Fleshraker makes a player lose life, Starting Column raises your speed
  2. Lux Artillery — When Lux Artillery makes a player lose life, Starting Column raises your speed
  3. Bontu's Monument — When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Bontu's Monument, Starting Column raises your speed
  4. Isolation Cell — When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Isolation Cell, Starting Column raises your speed
  5. Sword of War and Peace — When Sword of War and Peace makes a player lose life, Starting Column raises your speed
  6. Sword of Fire and Ice — When Sword of Fire and Ice makes a player lose life, Starting Column raises your speed
  7. Mjölnir, Storm Hammer — When Mjölnir, Storm Hammer makes a player lose life, Starting Column raises your speed
  8. Quietus Spike — When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Quietus Spike, Starting Column raises your speed
  9. Scytheclaw — When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Scytheclaw, Starting Column raises your speed
  10. Super State — When a creature makes a player lose life thanks to Super State, Starting Column raises your speed

3,150 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

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

  1. Gorbag of Minas Morgul — When you sacrifice Starting Column, Gorbag of Minas Morgul triggers

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

an artifact is cast — 3,683 cards in the game can cause this (Starting Column is one).

When Starting Column is cast:

  1. Death to Our Enemies — makes a token
  2. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — copies a spell
  3. Sai, Master Thopterist — makes a token
  4. Ravenous Robots — makes a token
  5. Pinnacle Emissary — makes a token
  6. Mirrodin Besieged — makes a token
  7. Poetic Ingenuity — makes a token
  8. Digsite Engineer — makes a token
  9. Myrsmith — makes a token
  10. Riddlesmith — draws you 1 card

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

a nontoken artifact enters the battlefield — 3,768 cards in the game can cause this (Starting Column is one).

  1. Ultron, Artificial Malevolence — When Starting Column enters, Ultron, Artificial Malevolence makes a token

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Starting Column is one).

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — When Starting Column makes a player draw a card, Toothy, Imaginary Friend puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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