Pick the Brain
Sorcery
Mana cost: {2}{B}
How we read this card
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
on-cast —
- makes exile an artifact
- makes exile a battle
- makes exile a creature
- makes exile an enchantment
- makes exile an instant
- makes exile a planeswalker
- makes exile a sorcery
If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as the exiled card, exile those cards, then that player shuffles.
on-cast — searches a library
on-cast —
- makes exile a card
on-cast —
- makes shuffle a library
Causes: exile an artifact, exile a battle, exile a creature, exile an enchantment, exile an instant, exile a planeswalker, exile a sorcery, exile a card, shuffle a library.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a planeswalker is exiled — 231 cards in the game can cause this (Pick the Brain is one).
- Kaya's Ghostform — When a creature is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain, Kaya's Ghostform blinks a permanent
a nontoken artifact is exiled — 334 cards in the game can cause this (Pick the Brain is one).
When an artifact is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain:
- Psychomancer — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Slagstone Refinery — makes a token
an artifact is exiled — 336 cards in the game can cause this (Pick the Brain is one).
- Shard of the Void Dragon — When an artifact is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain, Shard of the Void Dragon puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself
1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a nontoken creature is exiled — 995 cards in the game can cause this (Pick the Brain is one).
- The War Games — When a creature is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain, The War Games exiles a Warrior
a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Pick the Brain is one).
- Elemental Expressionist — When Elemental Expressionist is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain, it makes a token
- Ashnod's Intervention — When a creature is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain, Ashnod's Intervention brings a card back
- Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar — When a creature is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain, Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Kaya, Spirits' Justice — When a creature is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain, Kaya, Spirits' Justice copies a permanent
- Soulherder — When a creature is exiled thanks to Pick the Brain, Soulherder puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
3 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 (Pick the Brain is one).
- The War Doctor — When Pick the Brain is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Pick the Brain is one).
When Pick the Brain is cast:
- Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
- Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
- Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
- Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
- Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
- Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
- Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature
424 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 (Pick the Brain is one).
When Pick the Brain is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.