Tainted Aether

Tainted Aether

Enchantment

Mana cost: {2}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.

triggered —

Causes: sacrifice a creature, sacrifice a land, a creature dies, a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield.

Cares about: a creature enters the battlefield.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Tainted Aether is one).

  1. Slogurk, the Overslime — When Slogurk, the Overslime leaves the battlefield thanks to Tainted Aether, it brings a card back
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Tainted Aether, it exiles a Nightmare

a land is sacrificed — 438 cards in the game can cause this (Tainted Aether is one).

When a land is sacrificed thanks to Tainted Aether:

  1. Baloth Prime — makes a token
  2. Scouring Swarm — makes a token
  3. Hearthhull, the Worldseed — makes each opponent lose 2 life

a land in a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this (Tainted Aether is one).

Tainted Aether puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Zask, Skittering Swarmlord — can bring back
  2. Glacierwood Siege — can bring back
  3. Turntimber Sower — can bring back
  4. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  5. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back
  6. Serra Paragon — can bring back
  7. Muldrotha, the Gravetide — can bring back
  8. Deadbridge Chant — can bring back
  9. Invasion of Tolvada // The Broken Sky — can bring back
  10. Awaken the Honored Dead — can bring back

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

a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 636 cards in the game can cause this (Tainted Aether is one).

When a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Tainted Aether:

  1. Vastwood Zendikon — brings a card back
  2. Nissa's Zendikon — brings a card back
  3. Corrupted Zendikon — brings a card back
  4. Guardian Zendikon — brings a card back
  5. Crusher Zendikon — brings a card back
  6. Wind Zendikon — brings a card back
  7. Akki Raider — gets +1/+0
  8. Dingus Egg — deals 2 damage
  9. Genju of the Realm — returns itself from the graveyard

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

a land goes to a graveyard — 683 cards in the game can cause this (Tainted Aether is one).

When a creature or land hits the graveyard thanks to Tainted Aether:

  1. The Gitrog Monster — draws you 1 card
  2. Skola Grovedancer — gains you 1 life
  3. Sand Scout — makes a token
  4. Crawling Sensation — makes a token
  5. Countryside Crusher — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

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

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Tainted Aether:

  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 (Tainted Aether is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Tainted Aether:

  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 in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Tainted Aether is one).

Tainted Aether puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring 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 (Tainted Aether is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Tainted Aether:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  3. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  5. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  6. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  7. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  8. Decaying Soil — brings a card back

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

an enchantment it makes cheaper to cast — 3,713 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Mana Matrix — Mana Matrix reduces what Tainted Aether costs

3,712 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Tainted Aether is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Tainted Aether 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.

put a creature onto the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale — When a Plant enters thanks to Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  2. Curse of Shallow Graves — When a Zombie enters thanks to Curse of Shallow Graves, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  3. Nurgle's Conscription — When a creature enters thanks to Nurgle's Conscription, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  4. Grave Betrayal — When a creature enters thanks to Grave Betrayal, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  5. Ashen Powder — When a creature enters thanks to Ashen Powder, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  6. Dredge the Mire — When a creature enters thanks to Dredge the Mire, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  7. Visions of Dread — When a creature enters thanks to Visions of Dread, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  8. Endless Whispers — When a creature enters thanks to Endless Whispers, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  9. Forbidden Orchard — When a Spirit enters thanks to Forbidden Orchard, Tainted Aether makes a player sacrifice a creature or land

19,791 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.