Take the Bait
Instant
Mana cost: {2}{R}{W}
How we read this card
Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control this turn. Untap all attacking creatures and goad them. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
on-cast —
- makes prevented planeswalker
on-cast — untaps a permanent
- makes untap a creature
on-cast —
- makes goad a creature
on-cast — takes an extra combat
Causes: prevented planeswalker , untap a creature, goad a creature.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a creature untaps — 519 cards in the game can cause this (Take the Bait is one).
- Fishing Pole — When a creature untaps thanks to Take the Bait, Fishing Pole triggers
damage is prevented — 568 cards in the game can cause this (Take the Bait is one).
When a planeswalker has damage prevented thanks to Take the Bait:
- 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
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Take the Bait is one).
When Take the Bait 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
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — exiles a spell you control
- 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 (Take the Bait is one).
When Take the Bait 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.