Swindler's Scheme
Enchantment
Mana cost: {2}{U}
How we read this card
Whenever an opponent casts a spell from their hand, you may reveal the top card of your library. If it shares a card type with that spell, counter that spell and that opponent may cast the revealed card without paying its mana cost.
triggered —
- wants a spell being cast
- makes counter a spell
triggered —
- wants a spell being cast
- makes cast anything
Causes: counter a spell, cast anything.
Cares about: a spell is cast.
Works well with
an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Swindler's Scheme is one).
When Swindler's Scheme is cast:
- Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
- Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
- Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
- Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
- Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
- Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
- Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
- Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
- 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 (Swindler's Scheme is one).
- Historian's Boon — When Swindler's Scheme enters, Historian's Boon makes a token
an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Swindler's Scheme is one).
When Swindler's Scheme enters:
- Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
- Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
- Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
- Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
- Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
- Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
- Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
- Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
- Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
- Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card
59 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Swindler's Scheme is one).
- Nature's Wrath — When Swindler's Scheme enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice an Island or permanent
20 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.