Bouncer's Beatdown

Bouncer's Beatdown

Instant

Mana cost: {2}{G}

How we read this card

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a black permanent.

on-cast — costs 2 less

Bouncer's Beatdown deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.

on-cast — deals the greatest power among creatures you control damage

on-cast —

Causes: a creature deals noncombat damage, a planeswalker deals noncombat damage, exile a creature, exile a planeswalker, a creature leaves the battlefield, a planeswalker leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a planeswalker deals noncombat damage — 357 cards in the game can cause this (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

  1. Tamanoa — When Bouncer's Beatdown deals noncombat damage, Tamanoa gains you that much life

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

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

When a creature is exiled thanks to Bouncer's Beatdown:

  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 (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a creature or planeswalker is exiled thanks to Bouncer's Beatdown, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

When Bouncer's Beatdown deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Soul-Scar Mage — puts that many counters on a permanent
  3. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  5. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  6. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  7. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  8. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  9. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  10. 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.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

When Bouncer's Beatdown is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Invasion of Regatha // Disciples of the Inferno — gets +1/+1
  3. Elemental Expressionist — grants a keyword
  4. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  5. Tor Wauki the Younger — deals 2 damage
  6. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  7. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  8. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  9. Artist's Talent — draws and discards
  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 (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

  1. Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Bouncer's Beatdown, 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 (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Bouncer's Beatdown:

  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.

a creature is dealt damage — 18,923 cards in the game can cause this (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

When a creature is dealt damage thanks to Bouncer's Beatdown:

  1. Soul Link — gains you that much life
  2. Shriveling Rot — kills it
  3. Cryoshatter — kills a creature
  4. Hot Soup — kills a creature
  5. Cracked Skull — kills a creature
  6. Sporogenic Infection — kills a creature
  7. Frozen Solid — kills a creature
  8. Mortal Wound — kills a creature
  9. Mire Blight — kills it
  10. 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 (Bouncer's Beatdown is one).

When Bouncer's Beatdown 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.