Damocles Base, Sword of Kang
Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
Mana cost: {4}{B}
How we read this card
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever Damocles Base deals combat damage to a player, that player faces a villainous choice — They sacrifice a nontoken creature of their choice, or they lose 2 life and you draw two cards.
triggered —
triggered — draws you 2 cards
- wants this card dealing combat damage
- makes draw a card
Crew 3
Causes: you face a villainous choice, draw a card.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
an artifact is cast — 2,470 cards in Damocles Base's colors can cause this (Damocles Base is one).
When Damocles Base, Sword of Kang is cast:
- Patchwork Automaton — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Golem Foundry — puts a charge counter on itself
- Painsmith — gives +2/+0
- Golem's Heart — gains you 1 life
- Urza's Chalice — gains you 1 life
- Solar Array — grants sunburst
- Defiler of Flesh — gives +1/+1
- The Fantasticar — turns something into a creature
- Biotransference — makes you lose life
- Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature
10 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a nontoken artifact enters the battlefield — 2,473 cards in Damocles Base's colors can cause this (Damocles Base is one).
When Damocles Base, Sword of Kang enters:
- Ultron, Artificial Malevolence — makes a token
- Surge Conductor — proliferates
- Mirrorworks — makes a token
a card is drawn — 789 cards in Damocles Base's colors can cause this (Damocles Base is one).
When Damocles Base, Sword of Kang makes a player draw a card:
- Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
- Psychosis Crawler — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse — gains you 2 life
- Moonring Mirror — exiles a card from your library
10 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
an artifact enters the battlefield — 2,613 cards in Damocles Base's colors can cause this (Damocles Base is one).
When Damocles Base, Sword of Kang enters:
- Underhanded Designs — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Pactdoll Terror — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Arcbound Crusher — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Arcbound Condor — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
- Glaze Fiend — gets +2/+2
- Battered Golem — untaps itself
- Skorpekh Destroyer — grants first strike
- Grinding Station — untaps itself
- Ovalchase Daredevil — returns itself from the graveyard
- Vermiculos — gets +4/+4
4 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything that is not a token enters the battlefield — 6,294 cards in Damocles Base's colors can cause this (Damocles Base is one).
- Canoptek Spyder — When Damocles Base, Sword of Kang enters, Canoptek Spyder draws you 1 card