edhseer Commander synergy, explained

The Ruinous Powers

The Ruinous Powers

Enchantment

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

How we read this card

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose an opponent at random. Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may play that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

triggered —

triggered —

When you cast a spell this way, its owner loses life equal to its mana value.

triggered — makes each opponent lose life equal to its mana value

Causes: exile a card, cast anything, make a player lose life.

Cares about: an upkeep.

Works well with

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (The Ruinous Powers is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to The Ruinous Powers, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (The Ruinous Powers is one).

When a player makes a player lose life thanks to The Ruinous Powers:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
  2. Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
  3. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
  4. Aether Syphon — raises your speed
  5. Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
  6. Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
  7. Slick Imitator — raises your speed
  8. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  9. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  10. Lich's Mastery — triggers

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

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (The Ruinous Powers is one).

When The Ruinous Powers is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. 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 (The Ruinous Powers is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When The Ruinous Powers enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (The Ruinous Powers is one).

When The Ruinous Powers enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

63 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 (The Ruinous Powers is one).

  1. Nature's Wrath — When The Ruinous Powers enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice a Swamp or permanent

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