Shadowbane
Instant
Mana cost: {1}{W}
How we read this card
The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you and/or creatures you control this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a black source is prevented this way, you gain that much life.
on-cast —
- makes prevented creature
on-cast — gains you that much life
- makes gain life
Causes: prevented creature , gain life.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
damage is prevented — 568 cards in the game can cause this (Shadowbane is one).
When a creature has damage prevented thanks to Shadowbane:
- Phyrexian Vindicator — deals that much damage
- Selfless Squire — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
- New Way Forward — deals that much damage
- Samite Ministration — gains you that much life
- Judgment of Alexander — deals its power damage
life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Shadowbane is one).
When Shadowbane gains life:
- Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
- South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
- Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
- Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
- Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
- Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers
84 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 (Shadowbane is one).
When Shadowbane is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 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 (Shadowbane is one).
When Shadowbane 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.