Melek, Reforged Researcher

Melek, Reforged Researcher

Legendary Creature — Weird Detective

Mana cost: {3}{U}{R}

How we read this card

Melek's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

static — makes your creatures bigger

The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {3} less to cast.

static — costs 3 less

What we read on this card

Causes: nothing.

Cares about: an instant in a graveyard, a sorcery in a graveyard, an instant it boosts, a sorcery it boosts, an instant it makes cheaper to cast, a sorcery it makes cheaper to cast.

Works well with

a Detective enters the battlefield — 53 cards in Melek's colors can cause this (Melek is one).

  1. Projektor Inspector — When Melek, Reforged Researcher enters, Projektor Inspector draws you 1 card

an instant it boosts — 1,628 cards in Melek's colors can cause this (Melek is one).

Melek, Reforged Researcher gives:

  1. Fast // Furious — bigger stats
  2. Commit // Memory — bigger stats
  3. Said // Done — bigger stats
  4. Reduce // Rubble — bigger stats
  5. Vivi's Persistence — bigger stats
  6. First Day of Class — bigger stats
  7. Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions — bigger stats

1,621 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 6,189 cards in Melek's colors can cause this (Melek is one).

When Melek, Reforged Researcher attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Kindred Discovery — draws you 1 card
  3. Screaming Swarm — mills a card
  4. Imperious Mindbreaker — mills a card
  5. Staff of Titania — makes a token
  6. Saw — sacrifices a creature
  7. Ultima Weapon — kills a creature an opponent controls
  8. Total War — kills a creature
  9. The Spear of Leonidas — triggers
  10. Norin the Wary — flickers itself

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

a creature blocks — 6,189 cards in Melek's colors can cause this (Melek is one).

When Melek, Reforged Researcher blocks:

  1. Barrow-Blade — strips abilities
  2. Heat of Battle — deals 1 damage
  3. Battle Strain — deals 1 damage
  4. Tide of War — sacrifices a creature
  5. Dead-Iron Sledge — kills a creature
  6. Dwindle — kills a creature

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

anything attacks — 6,189 cards in Melek's colors can cause this (Melek is one).

When Melek, Reforged Researcher attacks:

  1. ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Madame Web, Clairvoyant — mills a card
  3. Shaun, Father of Synths — makes a token
  4. Misty Mountains Raider — puts 2 counters on a Goblin or Army
  5. Razorkin Hordecaller — makes a token
  6. Gossip's Talent — triggers
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — triggers
  8. Gut, True Soul Zealot — sacrifices a creature or artifact
  9. Cool but Rude — draws and discards
  10. Swashbuckler Extraordinaire — sacrifices a Treasure

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

a creature is cast — 6,218 cards in Melek's colors can cause this (Melek is one).

When Melek, Reforged Researcher is cast:

  1. Summon: Brynhildr — grants haste
  2. Oketra's Monument — makes a token
  3. Screamer-Killer — deals 5 damage
  4. Kozilek's Unsealing — makes 2 tokens
  5. The Clone Saga — copies a spell
  6. Customs Depot — draws you 1 card
  7. Bontu's Monument — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  8. Vanquisher's Banner — draws you 1 card
  9. Hazoret's Monument — draws and discards
  10. Aether Barrier — makes a player sacrifice a permanent

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 6,294 cards in Melek's colors can cause this (Melek is one).

When Melek, Reforged Researcher enters:

  1. Arni, Humble Scribe — untaps itself
  2. Minion Reflector — makes a token
  3. Molten Echoes — makes a token
  4. Flameshadow Conjuring — makes a token
  5. Mirror March — flips a coin
  6. Overburden — triggers

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 6,749 cards in Melek's colors can cause this (Melek is one).

When Melek, Reforged Researcher enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Gimli of the Glittering Caves — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  4. Blasting Station — untaps itself
  5. General Kreat, the Boltbringer — deals 1 damage
  6. Sage of the Falls — draws you 1 card
  7. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library
  8. Mogg Bombers — sacrifices itself
  9. Flame-Kin War Scout — sacrifices itself
  10. Monkey Cage — sacrifices itself

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