Bite Down on Crime
Sorcery
Mana cost: {3}{G}
How we read this card
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. This spell costs {2} less to cast if evidence was collected.
on-cast —
- makes collect evidence
on-cast — costs 2 less
Target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
on-cast — gives +2/+0
on-cast — deals its power damage
Causes: collect evidence, a creature deals noncombat damage.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
you collect evidence — 18 cards in the game can cause this (Bite Down on Crime is one).
When Bite Down on Crime collects evidence:
- Surveillance Monitor — makes a token
- Evidence Examiner — triggers
a creature deals noncombat damage — 1,420 cards in the game can cause this (Bite Down on Crime is one).
When a creature deals noncombat damage thanks to Bite Down on Crime:
- Soul Link — gains you that much life
- Tandem Lookout — draws you 1 card
- Armadillo Cloak — gains you that much life
- Vampiric Link — gains you that much life
- Spirit Loop — gains you that much life
- Spirit Link — gains you that much life
- Guilty Conscience — deals that much damage
- Visions of Brutality — makes a player lose life equal to that much
- Arm with Aether — triggers
12 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Bite Down on Crime is one).
When a creature deals noncombat damage thanks to Bite Down on Crime:
- Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
- Soul-Scar Mage — puts that many counters on a permanent
- Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
- Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
- Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
- Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
- Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
- Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
- Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
- Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library
36 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Bite Down on Crime is one).
When Bite Down on Crime is cast:
- Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
- Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
- Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
- Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
- Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
- Artist's Talent — draws and discards
- Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature
424 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a creature is dealt damage — 18,923 cards in the game can cause this (Bite Down on Crime is one).
When a creature is dealt damage thanks to Bite Down on Crime:
- Kazarov, Sengir Pureblood — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Druid's Call — makes that many tokens
- Shriveling Rot — kills it
- Cryoshatter — kills a creature
- Cracked Skull — kills a creature
- Sporogenic Infection — kills a creature
- Frozen Solid — kills a creature
- Mortal Wound — kills a creature
- Mire Blight — kills it
- Death Pits of Rath — kills it
17 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 (Bite Down on Crime is one).
When Bite Down on Crime is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.