edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Stabbing Pain

Stabbing Pain

Instant

Mana cost: {B}

How we read this card

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Tap that creature.

on-cast — shrinks a creature by -1/-1

on-cast —

Causes: tap a creature.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature becomes tapped — 565 cards in the game can cause this (Stabbing Pain is one).

When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Stabbing Pain:

  1. Unctus, Grand Metatect — draws you 1 card
  2. Sharae of Numbing Depths — draws you 1 card
  3. Rewrite History — draws you 1 card
  4. Stinging Licid — deals 2 damage
  5. Gideon's Avenger — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Icewrought Sentry — gets +2/+1
  7. Hawkeye's Bow — deals 1 damage
  8. Cryoshatter — kills a creature
  9. Don't Move — kills a creature
  10. Hylda of the Icy Crown — triggers

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

anything becomes tapped — 699 cards in the game can cause this (Stabbing Pain is one).

  1. Master Pakku — When Master Pakku becomes tapped thanks to Stabbing Pain, it mills a card

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Stabbing Pain is one).

When Stabbing Pain is cast:

  1. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  2. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  3. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  4. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  6. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. 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 (Stabbing Pain is one).

When Stabbing Pain is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

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