Baleful Mastery

Baleful Mastery

Instant

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.

on-cast — draws you 1 card

Exile target creature or planeswalker.

on-cast —

Causes: draw a card, exile a creature, exile a planeswalker, a creature leaves the battlefield, a planeswalker leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Baleful Mastery is one).

When a creature is exiled thanks to Baleful Mastery:

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  2. Soulherder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Baleful Mastery is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature or planeswalker is exiled thanks to Baleful Mastery, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Baleful Mastery is one).

When a permanent makes a player draw a card thanks to Baleful Mastery:

  1. Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted — deals 1 damage
  2. Orcish Bowmasters — deals 1 damage
  3. Scrawling Crawler — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Xyris, the Writhing Storm — makes a token
  5. Fate Unraveler — deals 1 damage
  6. Sheoldred, the Apocalypse — makes a player lose 2 life
  7. Nekusar, the Mindrazer — deals 1 damage
  8. Leela, Sevateem Warrior — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Razorkin Needlehead — deals 1 damage
  10. Consecrated Sphinx — draws you 2 cards

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

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Baleful Mastery is one).

When Baleful Mastery is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Elemental Expressionist — grants a keyword
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — draws you 1 card
  4. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  5. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  6. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  7. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  8. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  9. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  10. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell

427 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 (Baleful Mastery is one).

  1. Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Baleful Mastery, Dual Nature exiles a creature

3 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 (Baleful Mastery is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Baleful Mastery:

  1. Extractor Demon — mills a card
  2. Valor of the Worthy — makes a token
  3. Traveling Plague — returns itself from the graveyard
  4. Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature

25 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 (Baleful Mastery is one).

When Baleful Mastery is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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