Wooden Stake

Wooden Stake

Artifact — Equipment

Mana cost: {2}

How we read this card

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

static — gives +1/+0

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a Vampire, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

triggered —

Equip {1}

Causes: a creature dies.

Cares about: a creature becomes blocked.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Wooden Stake is one).

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Wooden Stake, it exiles a Nightmare

a nontoken Equipment enters the battlefield — 649 cards in the game can cause this (Wooden Stake is one).

  1. Firion, Wild Rose Warrior — When Wooden Stake enters, Firion, Wild Rose Warrior makes a token

an Equipment enters the battlefield — 658 cards in the game can cause this (Wooden Stake is one).

When Wooden Stake enters:

  1. Puresteel Paladin — draws you 1 card
  2. Sokka and Suki — makes a token
  3. Barret, Avalanche Leader — makes a token
  4. The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster — draws you 1 card
  5. Giott, King of the Dwarves — draws and discards
  6. Hammer of Nazahn — triggers
  7. Sigarda's Aid — triggers

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

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Wooden Stake is one).

Wooden Stake puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Pre-War Formalwear — can bring back
  2. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  3. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  4. Paleoloth — can bring back
  5. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  6. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  7. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  8. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  9. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  10. Krile Baldesion — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Wooden Stake is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Wooden Stake:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  3. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  5. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  6. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  7. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  8. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  9. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  10. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token

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

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Wooden Stake is one).

  1. Chainsaw — When a creature dies thanks to Wooden Stake, Chainsaw puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature dies thanks to Wooden Stake, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — When a creature dies thanks to Wooden Stake, Daxos, Blessed by the Sun gains you 1 life
  4. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — When a creature dies thanks to Wooden Stake, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Shriveling Rot — When a creature dies thanks to Wooden Stake, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  6. Jeskai Sage — When Jeskai Sage dies thanks to Wooden Stake, it draws you 1 card
  7. Meathook Massacre II — When a creature dies thanks to Wooden Stake, Meathook Massacre II brings a card back
  8. Cyclops Superconductor — When Cyclops Superconductor dies thanks to Wooden Stake, it triggers
  9. Saffi Eriksdotter — When a creature dies thanks to Wooden Stake, Saffi Eriksdotter sacrifices itself
  10. Treacherous Vampire — When Treacherous Vampire dies thanks to Wooden Stake, it makes you lose life

450 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 (Wooden Stake is one).

When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Wooden Stake:

  1. Lorcan, Warlock Collector — brings a card back
  2. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  3. Lazav, Dimir Mastermind — copies a permanent
  4. Profane Memento — gains you 1 life
  5. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers
  6. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — triggers

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

an artifact is cast — 3,683 cards in the game can cause this (Wooden Stake is one).

When Wooden Stake is cast:

  1. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — copies a spell
  2. Sai, Master Thopterist — makes a token
  3. Ravenous Robots — makes a token
  4. Pinnacle Emissary — makes a token
  5. Mirrodin Besieged — makes a token
  6. Poetic Ingenuity — makes a token
  7. Digsite Engineer — makes a token
  8. Myrsmith — makes a token
  9. Riddlesmith — draws you 1 card
  10. Dr. Madison Li — puts a counter on a permanent you control

271 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 (Wooden Stake is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Wooden Stake, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (Wooden Stake is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Wooden Stake, it exiles itself

15 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 (Wooden Stake is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Wooden Stake fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — Wooden Stake fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  3. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Wooden Stake puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

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