Sustaining Spirit

Sustaining Spirit

Creature — Angel Spirit

Mana cost: {1}{W}

How we read this card

Cumulative upkeep {1}{W}
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

static —

Causes: damage is prevented.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

an Angel creature in a graveyard — 5 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

  1. Bruna, the Fading Light — When Sustaining Spirit is in the graveyard, Bruna, the Fading Light can bring it back

an Angel is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 6 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  1. Bishop of Wings — makes a token
  2. Rampage of the Valkyries — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature

a nontoken Spirit is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 54 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

  1. Millicent, Restless Revenant — When Sustaining Spirit is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Millicent, Restless Revenant makes a token

a Spirit in a graveyard — 54 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit is in the graveyard:

  1. Iname, Life Aspect — can bring it back
  2. Angel of Flight Alabaster — can bring it back

an Angel enters the battlefield — 354 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit enters:

  1. Youthful Valkyrie — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Seraph Sanctuary — gains you 1 life
  3. Righteous Valkyrie — gains you that creature's toughness life

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

an Angel creature it applies animate to — 357 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Angelic Armaments — Angelic Armaments gives Sustaining Spirit life as a creature

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

damage is prevented — 568 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit has damage prevented:

  1. Phyrexian Vindicator — deals that much damage
  2. Selfless Squire — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. New Way Forward — deals that much damage
  4. Samite Ministration — gains you that much life
  5. Judgment of Alexander — deals its power damage

a nontoken Spirit enters the battlefield — 727 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

  1. Baboon Spirit — When Sustaining Spirit enters, Baboon Spirit makes a token

a Spirit enters the battlefield — 863 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit enters:

  1. Mausoleum Wanderer — gets +1/+1
  2. Drogskol Cavalry — gains you 2 life
  3. Vanguard of the Restless — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Nebelgast Herald — taps a creature an opponent controls

a Spirit creature it boosts — 889 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Gallows Warden — Gallows Warden gives Sustaining Spirit bigger stats
  2. Long-Forgotten Gohei — Long-Forgotten Gohei gives Sustaining Spirit bigger stats

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

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

When you sacrifice Sustaining Spirit:

  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 (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When you sacrifice Sustaining Spirit:

  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 gets a counter — 2,691 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit gets a counter:

  1. Hollowmurk Siege — draws you 1 card
  2. Danny Pink — draws you 1 card
  3. Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order — draws you 1 card
  4. Rikku, Resourceful Guardian — triggers

39 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 (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit is in the graveyard:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring it back
  2. Havengul Lich — can bring it back
  3. Liliana the Repentant — can bring it back
  4. Paleoloth — can bring it back
  5. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring it back
  6. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring it back
  7. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring it back
  8. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring it back
  9. Necromantic Thirst — can bring it back
  10. Krile Baldesion — can bring it back

799 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 (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit dies:

  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. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  7. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  8. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  9. Body Launderer — draws and discards

61 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 (Sustaining Spirit is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When Sustaining Spirit leaves the battlefield, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

34 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 (Sustaining Spirit is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Sustaining Spirit fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — When Sustaining Spirit attacks, Shaun, Father of Synths makes a token

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When Sustaining Spirit attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Sustaining Spirit is one).

When Sustaining Spirit enters:

  1. Scurry Oak — puts a counter on itself
  2. Fathom Mage — puts a counter on itself

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