This Is How It Ends

This Is How It Ends

Instant

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

Target creature's owner shuffles it into their library, then faces a villainous choice — They lose 5 life, or they shuffle another creature they own into their library.

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on-cast — makes each opponent lose 5 life

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Causes: a creature leaves the battlefield, shuffle a library, face a villainous choice creature , make a player lose life.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (This Is How It Ends is one).

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, it triggers

a library is shuffled — 1,189 cards in the game can cause this (This Is How It Ends is one).

When This Is How It Ends shuffles a library:

  1. Cosi's Trickster — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Psychic Surgery — triggers

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (This Is How It Ends is one).

When a player makes a player lose life thanks to This Is How It Ends:

  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 instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (This Is How It Ends is one).

When This Is How It Ends is cast:

  1. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  2. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  3. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  4. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  6. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — 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 (This Is How It Ends is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends:

  1. Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Splinter, the Mentor — makes a token
  3. Rat King, Pale Piper — makes a token
  4. Dual Nature — exiles a creature

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (This Is How It Ends is one).

  1. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom gains you 1 life
  2. Extractor Demon — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Extractor Demon mills a card
  3. Aang, Airbending Master — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Aang, Airbending Master puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Dour Port-Mage — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Dour Port-Mage draws you 1 card
  5. Vela the Night-Clad — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Vela the Night-Clad makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Taeko, the Patient Avalanche — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Taeko, the Patient Avalanche scries
  7. Phantasmal Mount — When Phantasmal Mount leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, it triggers
  8. Funeral March — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Funeral March makes a player sacrifice a creature
  9. Sally Sparrow — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Sally Sparrow triggers
  10. Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to This Is How It Ends, Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior triggers

19 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 (This Is How It Ends is one).

When This Is How It Ends 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.