Swirling Sandstorm

Swirling Sandstorm

Sorcery

Mana cost: {3}{R}

How we read this card

Swirling Sandstorm deals 5 damage to each creature without flying if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

on-cast — deals 5 damage

Causes: a creature deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Swirling Sandstorm is one).

When Swirling Sandstorm deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Soul-Scar Mage — puts that many counters on a permanent
  3. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  5. Dragonborn Champion — draws you 1 card
  6. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  7. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  8. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  9. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  10. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

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

a sorcery it makes cheaper to cast — 3,585 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Swirling Sandstorm costs

3,584 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

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

When Swirling Sandstorm is cast:

  1. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  2. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  3. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  4. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  5. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  6. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  7. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  8. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  9. Artist's Talent — draws and discards
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

424 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 (Swirling Sandstorm is one).

  1. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — Sokka, Bold Boomeranger fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  2. Nature's Wrath — Nature's Wrath fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  3. Samwise Gamgee — Samwise Gamgee fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  4. Liliana the Repentant — Liliana the Repentant fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  5. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  6. Rankle and Torbran — Rankle and Torbran fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — Caesar, Legion's Emperor fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain — Ayara, First of Locthwain fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  9. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — Temmet, Naktamun's Will fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs
  10. Liliana the Faultless — Liliana the Faultless fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Swirling Sandstorm needs

7,579 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is dealt damage — 18,923 cards in the game can cause this (Swirling Sandstorm is one).

When a creature is dealt damage thanks to Swirling Sandstorm:

  1. Soul Link — gains you that much life
  2. Shriveling Rot — kills it
  3. Cryoshatter — kills a creature
  4. Hot Soup — kills a creature
  5. Cracked Skull — kills a creature
  6. Sporogenic Infection — kills a creature
  7. Frozen Solid — kills a creature
  8. Mortal Wound — kills a creature
  9. Mire Blight — kills it
  10. Death Pits of Rath — kills it

17 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 (Swirling Sandstorm is one).

When Swirling Sandstorm is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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