Distended Mindbender

Distended Mindbender

Creature — Eldrazi Insect

Mana cost: {8}

How we read this card

Emerge {5}{B}{B}
When you cast this spell, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose from it a nonland card with mana value 3 or less and a card with mana value 4 or greater. That player discards those cards.

triggered —

Causes: discard an artifact, discard a battle, discard a creature, discard an enchantment, discard an instant, discard a planeswalker, discard a sorcery.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a battle is discarded — 15 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

  1. Waste Not — When an artifact makes a player discard a card thanks to Distended Mindbender, Waste Not draws you 1 card

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

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Distended Mindbender onto the battlefield from your library

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

an Eldrazi creature is cast — 226 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

When Distended Mindbender is cast:

  1. Emrakul's Influence — draws you 2 cards
  2. Kozilek's Return — exiles a card from a graveyard

an Eldrazi creature it makes cheaper to cast — 273 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Eye of Ugin — Eye of Ugin reduces what Distended Mindbender costs

272 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an Insect attacks — 323 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

When Distended Mindbender attacks:

  1. Vrestin, Menoptra Leader — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

When a creature, artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery, planeswalker or battle makes a player discard a card thanks to Distended Mindbender:

  1. Sangromancer — gains you 3 life
  2. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — puts a counter on an Advisor
  3. Nath of the Gilt-Leaf — makes a token
  4. Tourach, Dread Cantor — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance — deals 1 damage
  6. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar — hits a graveyard
  7. Fell Specter — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  8. Spirit Cairn — makes a token
  9. Confessor — gains you 1 life
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 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 (Distended Mindbender is one).

  1. Bloodbond March — Distended Mindbender puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  2. Heart-Shaped Herb — Distended Mindbender puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  3. Enlightened Confidant — Distended Mindbender puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back
  4. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Distended Mindbender puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring back
  5. Grazing Kelpie — Distended Mindbender puts cards into the graveyard that Grazing Kelpie can bring back
  6. Dauthi Voidwalker — Cards Distended Mindbender would put into an opponent's graveyard are exiled by Dauthi Voidwalker instead, and it can play from among them
  7. Endurance — Distended Mindbender puts cards into the graveyard that Endurance can bring back
  8. Thieves' Guild Enforcer — Distended Mindbender fills an opponent's graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Thieves' Guild Enforcer needs
  9. Soaring Thought-Thief — Distended Mindbender fills an opponent's graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Soaring Thought-Thief needs
  10. Merfolk Windrobber — Distended Mindbender fills an opponent's graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Merfolk Windrobber needs

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 (Distended Mindbender is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Distended Mindbender:

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Duskmantle Guildmage — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Vulturous Zombie — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Bloodchief Ascension — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  5. Compost — draws you 1 card
  6. Planar Void — hits a graveyard

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

When Distended Mindbender attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  3. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — triggers
  4. Cool but Rude — draws and discards
  5. Invisible Woman — triggers
  6. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  7. Guide of Souls — triggers
  8. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

When Distended Mindbender attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Saw — sacrifices a creature

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

a creature blocks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

  1. Tide of War — When Distended Mindbender blocks, Tide of War sacrifices a creature

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — When Distended Mindbender enters, Samwise Gamgee makes a token

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Distended Mindbender is one).

When Distended Mindbender enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  3. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  4. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  5. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  6. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

345 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 (Distended Mindbender is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Distended Mindbender enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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