Piercing Exhale

Piercing Exhale

Instant

Mana cost: {1}{G}

How we read this card

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may behold a Dragon.

on-cast —

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker. If a Dragon was beheld, surveil 2.

on-cast — deals its power damage

on-cast — surveils

Causes: behold dragon , a creature deals noncombat damage, a planeswalker deals noncombat damage, surveil.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

you surveil — 233 cards in the game can cause this (Piercing Exhale is one).

When Piercing Exhale surveils:

  1. Mirko, Obsessive Theorist — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review — gives +1/+0
  3. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History — gets +1/+1
  4. Saheeli, Consul of Oversight — makes a token
  5. Copy Catchers — makes a token
  6. Proft, Consulting Detective — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Matoya, Archon Elder — draws you 1 card
  8. Denzilore Fatehold — puts a counter on a creature
  9. Whispering Snitch — deals 1 damage
  10. Blood Operative — makes you lose life

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

a creature deals noncombat damage — 1,420 cards in the game can cause this (Piercing Exhale is one).

When a creature deals noncombat damage thanks to Piercing Exhale:

  1. Soul Link — gains you that much life
  2. Tandem Lookout — draws you 1 card
  3. Armadillo Cloak — gains you that much life
  4. Vampiric Link — gains you that much life
  5. Spirit Loop — gains you that much life
  6. Spirit Link — gains you that much life
  7. Guilty Conscience — deals that much damage
  8. Visions of Brutality — makes a player lose life equal to that much
  9. Arm with Aether — triggers

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

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

When a creature deals noncombat damage thanks to Piercing Exhale:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Soul-Scar Mage — puts that many counters on a permanent
  3. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  5. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  6. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  7. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  8. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  9. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  10. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

36 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 (Piercing Exhale is one).

When Piercing Exhale is cast:

  1. Invasion of Regatha // Disciples of the Inferno — 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 (Piercing Exhale is one).

  1. Charnelhoard Wurm — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Charnelhoard Wurm can bring back
  2. Samwise Gamgee — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  3. Bloodbond March — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  4. Transplant Theorist — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  5. Heart-Shaped Herb — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  6. Wayward Angel — Piercing Exhale fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  7. Rescue from the Underworld — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  8. Victimize — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  9. Bound // Determined — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  10. Enlightened Confidant — Piercing Exhale puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant 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 (Piercing Exhale is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Piercing Exhale:

  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.

a creature is dealt damage — 18,923 cards in the game can cause this (Piercing Exhale is one).

When a creature is dealt damage thanks to Piercing Exhale:

  1. Shriveling Rot — kills it
  2. Cryoshatter — kills a creature
  3. Hot Soup — kills a creature
  4. Cracked Skull — kills a creature
  5. Sporogenic Infection — kills a creature
  6. Frozen Solid — kills a creature
  7. Mortal Wound — kills a creature

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