Whelming Wave
Sorcery
Mana cost: {2}{U}{U}
How we read this card
Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.
on-cast — bounce
- makes a Kraken creature leaves the battlefield
- makes a Leviathan creature leaves the battlefield
- makes an Octopus creature leaves the battlefield
- makes a Serpent creature leaves the battlefield
Causes: a Kraken creature leaves the battlefield, a Leviathan creature leaves the battlefield, an Octopus creature leaves the battlefield, a Serpent creature leaves the battlefield.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Whelming Wave is one).
When Whelming Wave is cast:
- Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
- Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
- Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
- Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
- Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
- Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
- 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 (Whelming Wave is one).
When a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus or Serpent leaves the battlefield thanks to Whelming Wave:
- Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Splinter, the Mentor — makes a token
- Rat King, Pale Piper — makes a token
- Dual Nature — exiles a creature
a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Whelming Wave is one).
When a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus or Serpent leaves the battlefield thanks to Whelming Wave:
- Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — gains you 1 life
- Extractor Demon — mills a card
- Aang, Airbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent
- Dour Port-Mage — draws you 1 card
- Vela the Night-Clad — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Taeko, the Patient Avalanche — scries
- Ninth Bridge Patrol — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature
- Sally Sparrow — triggers
- Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior — triggers
19 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 (Whelming Wave is one).
When Whelming Wave is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.