Undead Gladiator

Undead Gladiator

Creature — Zombie Barbarian

Mana cost: {1}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

activated {1}{B}, Discard a card —

activated {1}{B}, Discard a card — brings a card back

Cycling {1}{B}

Causes: discard a card, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

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

When Undead Gladiator makes a player discard a card:

  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 Zombie deals combat damage — 657 cards in the game can cause this (Undead Gladiator is one).

  1. Undead Alchemist — When Undead Gladiator deals combat damage, Undead Alchemist mills a card

a Zombie attacks — 657 cards in the game can cause this (Undead Gladiator is one).

  1. Varina, Lich Queen — When Undead Gladiator attacks, Varina, Lich Queen draws you that many cards

a nontoken Zombie enters the battlefield — 661 cards in the game can cause this (Undead Gladiator is one).

  1. Necroduality — When Undead Gladiator enters, Necroduality makes a token

a Zombie enters the battlefield — 795 cards in the game can cause this (Undead Gladiator is one).

When Undead Gladiator enters:

  1. Noxious Ghoul — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Geralf, the Fleshwright — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Wayward Servant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Champion of the Perished — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Mummy Paramount — gets +1/+1
  6. Unconventional Tactics — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Binding Mummy — taps a creature or artifact

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

When Undead Gladiator 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. Erebos's Titan — triggers

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 (Undead Gladiator is one).

When Undead Gladiator makes a player discard a card:

  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 (Undead Gladiator is one).

When Undead Gladiator 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 goes to a graveyard — 3,011 cards in the game can cause this (Undead Gladiator is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Undead Gladiator:

  1. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  2. Voracious Brood — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers
  4. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — triggers
  5. Sefris of the Hidden Ways — triggers

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Undead Gladiator is one).

When Undead Gladiator makes a player draw a card:

  1. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself

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