Dark Bargain

Dark Bargain

Instant

Mana cost: {3}{B}

How we read this card

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Dark Bargain deals 2 damage to you.

on-cast — puts cards into your hand

on-cast — mills a card

on-cast — deals 2 damage

Causes: mill a card, anything deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

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

When Dark Bargain deals noncombat damage:

  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 (Dark Bargain is one).

When Dark Bargain makes a player lose life:

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

When Dark Bargain is cast:

  1. Soul-Scar Mage — gets +1/+1
  2. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  3. Tor Wauki the Younger — deals 2 damage
  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. 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 card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Dark Bargain is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Transplant Theorist — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  4. Heart-Shaped Herb — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  5. Wayward Angel — Dark Bargain fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  6. Rescue from the Underworld — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  7. Victimize — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  8. Bound // Determined — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  9. Enlightened Confidant — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back
  10. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Dark Bargain puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring back

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

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Dark Bargain is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Dark Bargain:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

7 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 (Dark Bargain is one).

When Dark Bargain 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 is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Dark Bargain is one).

When Dark Bargain 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.