Bound // Determined

Bound // Determined

Instant // Instant

Mana cost: {3}{B}{G} // {G}{U}

How we read this card

Sacrifice a creature. Return up to X cards from your graveyard to your hand, where X is the number of colors that creature was. Exile this card.

on-cast —

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast —

Other spells you control can't be countered this turn.
Draw a card.

on-cast — draws you 1 card

Causes: sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, anything leaves a graveyard, exile a card, draw a card.

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice, a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Bound is one).

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — When Toothy, Imaginary Friend leaves the battlefield thanks to Bound // Determined, it draws you cards
  2. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Bound // Determined, it triggers
  3. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Bound // Determined, it exiles a Nightmare

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Bound is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Bound // Determined:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Bound is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Bound // Determined:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

19 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 (Bound is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When Bound // Determined is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Bound is one).

When Bound // Determined leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

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

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Bound is one).

Bound // Determined puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Bound is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Bound // Determined:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  9. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  10. Body Launderer — draws and discards

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

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Bound is one).

  1. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature dies thanks to Bound // Determined, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — When a creature dies thanks to Bound // Determined, Daxos, Blessed by the Sun gains you 1 life
  3. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — When a creature dies thanks to Bound // Determined, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Shriveling Rot — When a creature dies thanks to Bound // Determined, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  5. Jeskai Sage — When Jeskai Sage dies thanks to Bound // Determined, it draws you 1 card
  6. Meathook Massacre II — When a creature dies thanks to Bound // Determined, Meathook Massacre II brings a card back
  7. Cyclops Superconductor — When Cyclops Superconductor dies thanks to Bound // Determined, it triggers
  8. Saffi Eriksdotter — When a creature dies thanks to Bound // Determined, Saffi Eriksdotter sacrifices itself
  9. Treacherous Vampire — When Treacherous Vampire dies thanks to Bound // Determined, it makes you lose life

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

an instant it makes cheaper to cast — 3,773 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Bound // Determined costs
  2. Case of the Ransacked Lab — Case of the Ransacked Lab reduces what Bound // Determined costs
  3. Jace's Sanctum — Jace's Sanctum reduces what Bound // Determined costs
  4. Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death — Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death reduces what Bound // Determined costs
  5. Mindsplice Apparatus — Mindsplice Apparatus reduces what Bound // Determined costs
  6. Arcane Melee — Arcane Melee reduces what Bound // Determined costs
  7. Font of Magic — Font of Magic reduces what Bound // Determined costs

3,766 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

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

  1. Cryptic Pursuit — When Bound // Determined is cast, Cryptic Pursuit triggers

436 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 (Bound is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Bound // Determined, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (Bound is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Bound // Determined, it exiles itself

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

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Bound // Determined fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — Bound // Determined fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  3. Master of Winds — Master of Winds puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  4. Windrider Wizard — Windrider Wizard puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  5. Sage of the Falls — Sage of the Falls puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  6. Sage's Row Denizen — Sage's Row Denizen puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  7. Snarling Gorehound — Snarling Gorehound puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  8. Durable Handicraft — When Durable Handicraft is in the graveyard, Bound // Determined can bring it back
  9. Grim Javelineer — Grim Javelineer puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  10. Arni, Humble Scribe — Arni, Humble Scribe puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  11. Grim Hireling — Grim Hireling puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  12. Hooded Blightfang — Hooded Blightfang puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back

1,873 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.