Stir the Sands

Stir the Sands

Sorcery

Mana cost: {4}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Create three 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

on-cast — makes 3 tokens

Cycling {3}{B}
When you cycle this card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

triggered — makes a token

Causes: create a Zombie creature token, put a Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a sorcery is discarded — 68 cards in the game can cause this (Stir the Sands is one).

When Stir the Sands makes a player discard a card:

  1. Bone Miser — draws you 1 card
  2. Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer — brings a card back
  3. Conspiracy Theorist — brings a card back
  4. Veronica, Dissident Scribe — makes a token
  5. Green Goblin, Nemesis — puts a counter on a Goblin
  6. Surly Badgersaur — deals damage

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

a Zombie enters the battlefield — 795 cards in the game can cause this (Stir the Sands is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Stir the Sands:

  1. Noxious Ghoul — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Geralf, the Fleshwright — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Wayward Servant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Champion of the Perished — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Mummy Paramount — gets +1/+1
  6. Unconventional Tactics — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Binding Mummy — taps a creature or artifact

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

When Stir the Sands 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.

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Stir the Sands is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Stir the Sands:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Stir the Sands is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Stir the Sands makes a Zombie token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

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

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Stir the Sands is one).

When a Zombie enters thanks to Stir the Sands:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (Stir the Sands is one).

When Stir the Sands makes a Zombie token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  3. Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

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

When Stir the Sands is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

424 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 (Stir the Sands is one).

When Stir the Sands makes a player draw a card:

  1. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0

59 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 (Stir the Sands is one).

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — When Stir the Sands is in the graveyard, Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring it back

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