Tortured Existence

Tortured Existence

Enchantment

Mana cost: {B}

How we read this card

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

activated {B}, Discard a creature card —

activated {B}, Discard a creature card — brings a card back

Causes: discard a creature, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

a creature is discarded — 206 cards in the game can cause this (Tortured Existence is one).

When a creature makes a player discard a card thanks to Tortured Existence:

  1. Wharf Infiltrator — makes a token
  2. Bone Miser — makes a token
  3. Hashaton, Scarab's Fist — makes a token
  4. Surly Badgersaur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer — brings a card back
  6. Conspiracy Theorist — brings a card back
  7. Veronica, Dissident Scribe — makes a token
  8. Green Goblin, Nemesis — puts a counter on a Goblin

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

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

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Tortured Existence:

  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 card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Tortured Existence is one).

When a creature makes a player discard a card thanks to Tortured Existence:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 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 (Tortured Existence is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Tortured Existence:

  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.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Tortured Existence is one).

When Tortured Existence 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 (Tortured Existence is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Tortured Existence enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When Tortured Existence 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

64 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 (Tortured Existence is one).

  1. Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card — Tortured Existence fills your graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card needs

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