Suffer the Past
Instant
Mana cost: {X}{B}
How we read this card
Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
on-cast — hits a graveyard
- makes exile a card
- makes anything leaves a graveyard
on-cast — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- makes make a player lose life
on-cast — gains you 1 life
- makes gain life
on-cast — drains each opponent
Causes: exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, make a player lose life, gain life.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Suffer the Past is one).
When Suffer the Past gains life:
- Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
- South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
- Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
- Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
- Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
- Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers
84 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Suffer the Past is one).
- The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Suffer the Past, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Suffer the Past is one).
When Suffer the Past makes a player lose life:
- Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
- Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
- Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
- Aether Syphon — raises your speed
- Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
- Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
- Slick Imitator — raises your speed
- Nesting Bot — raises your speed
- Howlsquad Heavy — raises your speed
- Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
46 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 (Suffer the Past is one).
When Suffer the Past is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Suffer the Past is one).
When Suffer the Past is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.