The Battle of Bywater

The Battle of Bywater

Sorcery

Mana cost: {1}{W}{W}

How we read this card

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control.

on-cast —

on-cast — makes a token

Causes: a creature dies, create a Food artifact token, put a Food artifact token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to The Battle of Bywater, it exiles a Nightmare

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

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

The Battle of Bywater puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

When a creature dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  3. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  5. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  6. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  7. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  8. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  9. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  10. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token

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

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

  1. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — When a creature dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, Daxos, Blessed by the Sun gains you 1 life
  3. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — When a creature dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Shriveling Rot — When a creature dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  5. Meathook Massacre II — When a creature dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, Meathook Massacre II brings a card back
  6. Pink Horror — When Pink Horror dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, it makes 2 tokens
  7. Ashnod's Intervention — When a creature dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, Ashnod's Intervention brings a card back
  8. Saffi Eriksdotter — When a creature dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, Saffi Eriksdotter sacrifices itself
  9. Treacherous Vampire — When Treacherous Vampire dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, it makes you lose life
  10. Cavalier of Thorns — When Cavalier of Thorns dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, it exiles itself

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

a creature goes to a graveyard — 3,011 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to The Battle of Bywater:

  1. Lorcan, Warlock Collector — brings a card back
  2. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  3. Lazav, Dimir Mastermind — copies a permanent
  4. Profane Memento — gains you 1 life
  5. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers
  6. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — triggers

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

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

When a Food enters thanks to The Battle of Bywater:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Cloakwood Swarmkeeper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Woodland Champion — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  9. Leonardo, the Balance — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a token is created — 3,711 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

When The Battle of Bywater makes a Food token:

  1. Akim, the Soaring Wind — makes a token
  2. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  3. Rosie Cotton of South Lane — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

When The Battle of Bywater is cast:

  1. Cyclops Superconductor — gets +1/+1
  2. Jeskai Sage — gets +1/+1

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to The Battle of Bywater, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (The Battle of Bywater is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to The Battle of Bywater, it exiles itself

15 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 (The Battle of Bywater is one).

The Battle of Bywater:

  1. Havi, the All-Father — fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  3. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back
  4. Reborn Hero — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Reborn Hero needs
  5. Treacherous Werewolf — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Treacherous Werewolf needs

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