Extract the Truth

Extract the Truth

Sorcery

Mana cost: {1}{B}

How we read this card

Target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a creature, enchantment, or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

on-cast —

Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

on-cast —

Causes: you face a dilemma, discard a card, sacrifice an enchantment, an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Extract the Truth is one).

When Extract the Truth poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

an enchantment in a graveyard — 983 cards in the game can cause this (Extract the Truth is one).

Extract the Truth puts cards into the:

  1. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — graveyard that Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest can bring back
  2. Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer — graveyard that Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer can bring back
  3. Narset, Enlightened Exile — graveyard that Narset, Enlightened Exile can bring back
  4. Fallaji Archaeologist — graveyard that Fallaji Archaeologist can bring back
  5. Saprazzan Bailiff — graveyard that Saprazzan Bailiff can bring back
  6. Chandra, Chill of Compliance — graveyard that Chandra, Chill of Compliance can bring back
  7. Open the Vaults — graveyard that Open the Vaults can bring back
  8. Mine Excavation — graveyard that Mine Excavation can bring back
  9. Cantivore — graveyard, and Cantivore gets bigger

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

an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 987 cards in the game can cause this (Extract the Truth is one).

  1. Femeref Enchantress — When an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Extract the Truth, Femeref Enchantress draws you 1 card

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

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

When a permanent makes a player discard a card thanks to Extract the Truth:

  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 sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Extract the Truth is one).

When Extract the Truth is cast:

  1. The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Lotus-Eye Mystics — gets +1/+1
  3. Death to Our Enemies — makes a token
  4. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  5. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  6. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  7. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  8. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  9. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

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