Welcome the Dead

Welcome the Dead

Sorcery

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

Draw two cards, then discard a card and you lose 2 life. Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature tokens, where X is the number of cards that were put into your graveyard from your hand or library this turn.

on-cast — draws you 2 cards

on-cast —

on-cast —

on-cast — makes a token

Flashback {5}{B}

Causes: draw a card, discard a card, make a player lose life, create a Druid creature token, create a Zombie creature token, put a Druid creature token onto the battlefield, put a Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

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

When a Zombie enters thanks to Welcome the Dead:

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

When Welcome the Dead 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.

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Welcome the Dead is one).

When a Zombie or Druid enters thanks to Welcome the Dead:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Welcome the Dead is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Welcome the Dead makes a Zombie or Druid token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

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

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Welcome the Dead is one).

When Welcome the Dead makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

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

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (Welcome the Dead is one).

When a Zombie or Druid enters thanks to Welcome the Dead:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (Welcome the Dead is one).

When Welcome the Dead makes a Zombie or Druid token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  3. Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

17 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 (Welcome the Dead is one).

When Welcome the Dead 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 card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Welcome the Dead is one).

When Welcome the Dead makes a player draw a card:

  1. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1

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 (Welcome the Dead is one).

Welcome the Dead puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — can bring back
  2. Harness the Storm — can bring back

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