Wail of the Forgotten

Wail of the Forgotten

Sorcery

Mana cost: {U}{B}

How we read this card

Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead.

on-cast —

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

on-cast — bounce

Target opponent discards a card.

on-cast —

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

on-cast — puts cards into your hand

on-cast — mills a card

Causes: you face a dilemma, an artifact leaves the battlefield, a battle leaves the battlefield, a creature leaves the battlefield, an enchantment leaves the battlefield, a planeswalker leaves the battlefield, discard a card, mill a card.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Wail of the Forgotten is one).

When Wail of the Forgotten poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Wail of the Forgotten is one).

When a permanent makes a player discard a card thanks to Wail of the Forgotten:

  1. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — puts a counter on an Advisor
  2. Sangromancer — gains you 3 life
  3. Nath of the Gilt-Leaf — makes a token
  4. Tourach, Dread Cantor — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance — deals 1 damage
  6. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar — hits a graveyard
  7. Fell Specter — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  8. Spirit Cairn — makes a token
  9. Confessor — gains you 1 life
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

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

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Wail of the Forgotten is one).

When Wail of the Forgotten is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

424 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 (Wail of the Forgotten is one).

  1. Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Wail of the Forgotten, Dual Nature exiles a creature

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Wail of the Forgotten is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Wail of the Forgotten:

  1. Extractor Demon — mills a card
  2. Valor of the Worthy — makes a token
  3. Traveling Plague — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature

25 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 (Wail of the Forgotten is one).

Wail of the Forgotten:

  1. Pitchstone Wall — puts cards into the graveyard that Pitchstone Wall can bring back
  2. Containment Construct — puts cards into the graveyard that Containment Construct can bring back
  3. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — puts cards into the graveyard that Moonstone, Harsh Mistress can bring back
  4. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  5. Harness the Storm — puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  6. Samwise Gamgee — puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  7. Bloodbond March — puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  8. Transplant Theorist — puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  9. Heart-Shaped Herb — puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  10. Wayward Angel — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs

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

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Wail of the Forgotten is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Wail of the Forgotten:

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Duskmantle Guildmage — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Vulturous Zombie — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  5. Bloodchief Ascension — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  6. Compost — draws you 1 card
  7. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  8. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  9. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

2 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 (Wail of the Forgotten is one).

When Wail of the Forgotten 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.