Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival

Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Warrior // Legendary Creature — Dragon

Mana cost: {3}{B}{B}

How we read this card

When Zenos yae Galvus enters, choose a creature an opponent controls. Until end of turn, creatures other than Zenos yae Galvus and the chosen creature get -2/-2.

triggered — shrinks a creature by -2/-2

When the chosen creature leaves the battlefield, transform Zenos yae Galvus.

triggered —

Flying
As this creature transforms into Shinryu, choose an opponent.
When the chosen player loses the game, you win the game.

triggered — can win the game

What we read on this card

Causes: a creature dies, transform anything.

Cares about: a creature leaves the battlefield.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, it exiles a Nightmare

a Dragon it applies enters with counters to — 54 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this.

  1. Dragonstorm Globe — Dragonstorm Globe gives Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival counters as it enters

53 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Warrior deals combat damage — 170 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Raiders' Spoils — When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival deals combat damage, Raiders' Spoils makes you lose life

a Warrior creature enters the battlefield — 187 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Obsidian Battle-Axe — When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival enters, Obsidian Battle-Axe triggers

a Warrior enters the battlefield — 189 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Thrasher Brute — When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival enters, Thrasher Brute makes each opponent lose 1 life

a creature in a graveyard — 1,237 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival puts cards into the:

  1. Liliana the Repentant — graveyard that Liliana the Repentant can bring back
  2. Sword of Light and Shadow — graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  3. Necromantic Thirst — graveyard that Necromantic Thirst can bring back
  4. Ruthless Technomancer — graveyard that Ruthless Technomancer can bring back
  5. Forum Necroscribe — graveyard that Forum Necroscribe can bring back
  6. The Deck of Many Things — graveyard that The Deck of Many Things can bring back
  7. Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette — graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  8. Sibsig Muckdraggers — graveyard that Sibsig Muckdraggers can bring back
  9. The Cauldron of Eternity — graveyard, and The Cauldron of Eternity gets bigger
  10. Zuko's Conviction — graveyard that Zuko's Conviction can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 1,237 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival:

  1. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  2. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  3. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  4. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  5. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  6. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard
  7. Gate to the Afterlife — gains you 1 life
  8. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  9. Body Launderer — draws and discards
  10. Nightmare Shepherd — exiles it

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

a creature dies — 1,255 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Shriveling Rot — When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  2. Meathook Massacre II — When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Meathook Massacre II brings a card back
  3. Ashnod's Intervention — When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Ashnod's Intervention brings a card back
  4. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire — When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire brings a card back
  5. Lim-Dûl the Necromancer — When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Lim-Dûl the Necromancer brings a card back
  6. Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker — When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker brings a card back
  7. Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho — When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho brings a card back
  8. Undying Malice — When a creature dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Undying Malice brings a card back
  9. Treacherous Vampire — When Treacherous Vampire dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, it makes you lose life
  10. Treacherous Werewolf — When Treacherous Werewolf dies thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, it makes you lose life

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

a creature goes to a graveyard — 1,280 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival:

  1. Lorcan, Warlock Collector — brings a card back
  2. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  3. Profane Memento — gains you 1 life

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

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 1,393 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival:

  1. Splinter, the Mentor — makes a token
  2. Rat King, Pale Piper — makes a token

a creature leaves the battlefield — 1,418 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Rapacious Guest — When Rapacious Guest leaves the battlefield thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, it makes each opponent lose life equal to its power
  3. Extractor Demon — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Extractor Demon mills a card
  4. Traveling Plague — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Traveling Plague returns itself from the graveyard
  5. Funeral March — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival, Funeral March makes a player sacrifice a creature

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

a card in a graveyard — 2,555 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Repentant Vampire — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  2. Heart-Shaped Herb — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  3. Rescue from the Underworld — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  4. Victimize — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  5. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring back
  6. Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival puts cards into the graveyard that Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker can bring back
  7. Dauthi Voidwalker — Cards Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival would put into an opponent's graveyard are exiled by Dauthi Voidwalker instead, and it can play from among them
  8. Gloomdrifter — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Gloomdrifter needs
  9. Boneshard Slasher — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Boneshard Slasher needs
  10. Loot, the Anomaly — Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Loot, the Anomaly needs

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

anything goes to a graveyard — 2,555 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival:

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Bloodchief Ascension — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  4. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 3,478 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

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

anything attacks — 3,478 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this (Zenos yae Galvus is one).

  1. Grim Javelineer — When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival attacks, Grim Javelineer gives +1/+0

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

put anything onto the battlefield — 6,402 cards in Zenos yae Galvus's colors can cause this.

When Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival enters thanks to:

  1. Portcullis — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  2. Sword of Hearth and Home — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  3. Body Snatcher — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  4. Sothera, the Supervoid — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  5. Isareth the Awakener — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  6. Coffin Queen — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  7. Balthor the Defiled — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  8. The Soul Stone — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  9. From the Catacombs — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2
  10. Soul Exchange — it shrinks a creature by -2/-2

6,392 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.