Bind the Monster

Bind the Monster

Enchantment — Aura

Mana cost: {U}

How we read this card

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. It deals damage to you equal to its power.

triggered — deals its power damage

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

static — keeps permanents from untapping

Causes: anything deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

an Aura enters the battlefield — 1,257 cards in the game can cause this (Bind the Monster is one).

When Bind the Monster enters:

  1. Tanglespan Lookout — draws you 1 card
  2. Chishiro, the Shattered Blade — makes a token

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

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Bind the Monster is one).

When a creature deals noncombat damage thanks to Bind the Monster:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  4. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  5. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  6. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  7. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  8. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  9. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

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

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Bind the Monster is one).

When a creature makes a player lose life thanks to Bind the Monster:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

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

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Bind the Monster is one).

When Bind the Monster is cast:

  1. Soul-Scar Mage — gets +1/+1
  2. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  3. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  4. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  5. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  6. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  7. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  8. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  9. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  10. Artist's Talent — draws and discards

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

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Bind the Monster is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Bind the Monster enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Bind the Monster is one).

When Bind the Monster enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

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

anything is dealt damage — 19,812 cards in the game can cause this (Bind the Monster is one).

When Bind the Monster is dealt damage:

  1. Darien, King of Kjeldor — makes that many tokens
  2. Blood Hound — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. Angelheart Vial — puts that many charge counters on itself
  4. Sun Droplet — puts that many charge counters on itself
  5. Living Artifact — puts that many counters on a permanent
  6. Swarmborn Giant — sacrifices itself
  7. Risona, Asari Commander — triggers
  8. Azor's Elocutors — triggers
  9. Lich — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Contested Game Ball — untaps itself

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

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Bind the Monster is one).

  1. Nature's Wrath — When Bind the Monster enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice an Island or permanent

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