Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave

Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave

Creature — Serpent Dragon // Instant — Adventure

Mana cost: {5}{U}{U} // {1}{U}

How we read this card

This creature can't be blocked as long as you've cast a noncreature spell this turn.

static — restricts what can block it

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

on-cast — bounce

Causes: a creature leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Mass Polymorph — Mass Polymorph can put Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave onto the battlefield from your library

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

an Adventure instant is cast — 61 cards in the game can cause this (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

  1. Lucky Clover — When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave is cast, Lucky Clover copies a spell

a Dragon attacks — 474 cards in the game can cause this (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave attacks:

  1. Silumgar, the Drifting Death — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Utvara Hellkite — makes a token
  3. The Ur-Dragon — draws you that many cards
  4. Atarka, World Render — grants double strike
  5. Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury — gives +1/+0
  6. Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw — deals 2 damage
  7. Ojutai, Soul of Winter — taps a creature, artifact, enchantment, planeswalker or battle an opponent controls
  8. Dromoka, the Eternal — puts a counter on a permanent

a Dragon deals combat damage — 474 cards in the game can cause this (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave deals combat damage:

  1. Parapet Thrasher — triggers
  2. Broodcaller Scourge — puts a permanent onto the battlefield
  3. Zurgo and Ojutai — triggers

a nontoken Dragon enters the battlefield — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave enters:

  1. Lathliss, Dragon Queen — makes a token
  2. Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm — makes a token

a Dragon enters the battlefield — 524 cards in the game can cause this (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave enters:

  1. Dragon Tempest — deals damage
  2. Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory — gains you 3 life
  3. Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Ganax, Astral Hunter — makes a token
  5. Scourge of Valkas — deals damage
  6. Bladewing's Thrall — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Sarkhan, Soul Aflame — copies a permanent
  8. Teeming Dragonstorm — triggers
  9. Corroding Dragonstorm — triggers
  10. Roiling Dragonstorm — triggers

4 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 (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  3. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  4. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  5. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  6. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  7. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  8. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls

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

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

  1. Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave, Dual Nature exiles a creature

3 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 (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave:

  1. Extractor Demon — mills a card
  2. Valor of the Worthy — makes a token
  3. Traveling Plague — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature

27 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 (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave attacks:

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — makes a token
  2. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  3. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  4. Invisible Woman — triggers
  5. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature

123 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 (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave attacks, Adaptive Omnitool searches a library

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

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

  1. Champions of the Perfect — When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave is cast, Champions of the Perfect draws you 1 card

90 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 (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave enters:

  1. Pollywog Prodigy — puts a counter on itself
  2. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — gains you 1 life
  3. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage

320 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 (Sword Coast Serpent is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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