Thunderkin Awakener

Thunderkin Awakener

Creature — Elemental Shaman

Mana cost: {1}{R}

How we read this card

Haste
Whenever this creature attacks, choose target Elemental creature card in your graveyard with toughness less than this creature's toughness. Return that card to the battlefield tapped and attacking. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

triggered — brings a card back

triggered —

Causes: put an Elemental creature onto the battlefield, an Elemental creature leaves a graveyard, sacrifice an Elemental creature, an Elemental creature dies.

Cares about: an Elemental to sacrifice, an Elemental creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

put an Elemental creature into a graveyard — 88 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. War Elemental — When War Elemental is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back
  2. Flame-Kin War Scout — When Flame-Kin War Scout is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back
  3. Blazing Bomb — When Blazing Bomb is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back
  4. Incandescent Soulstoke — Incandescent Soulstoke puts cards into the graveyard that Thunderkin Awakener can bring back
  5. Magmasaur — When Magmasaur is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back
  6. Ingot Chewer — When Ingot Chewer is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back
  7. Faultgrinder — When Faultgrinder is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back
  8. Longhorn Firebeast — When Longhorn Firebeast is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back
  9. Cinder Elemental — When Cinder Elemental is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back
  10. Spitebellows — When Spitebellows is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back

78 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed — 90 cards in the game can cause this (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

  1. Ashling, the Limitless — When an Elemental is sacrificed thanks to Thunderkin Awakener, Ashling, the Limitless makes a token

an Elemental in a graveyard — 90 cards in the game can cause this (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

Thunderkin Awakener puts cards into the:

  1. Sunflare Shaman — graveyard, and Sunflare Shaman gets bigger
  2. Horde of Notions — graveyard that Horde of Notions can bring back

an Elemental is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 93 cards in the game can cause this (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

When Thunderkin Awakener is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  1. Omnath, Locus of Rage — deals 3 damage
  2. Titania, Nature's Force — mills a card

a Shaman creature enters the battlefield — 539 cards in the game can cause this (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

  1. Thornbite Staff — When Thunderkin Awakener enters, Thornbite Staff triggers

an Elemental enters the battlefield — 754 cards in the game can cause this (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

When Thunderkin Awakener enters:

  1. Champion of the Path — deals its power damage
  2. Risen Reef — puts a land onto the battlefield

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

When Thunderkin Awakener leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

3 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 (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

When an Elemental is sacrificed thanks to Thunderkin Awakener:

  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 (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

When an Elemental is sacrificed thanks to Thunderkin Awakener:

  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.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

When Thunderkin Awakener leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 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 (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

Thunderkin Awakener puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  3. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  4. Paleoloth — can bring back
  5. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  6. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  7. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  8. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  9. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  10. Krile Baldesion — 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 (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

When Thunderkin Awakener dies:

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

63 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 (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Thunderkin Awakener 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.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — When Thunderkin Awakener attacks, Shaun, Father of Synths makes a token

149 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 (Thunderkin Awakener is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When Thunderkin Awakener attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

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