
Bound // Determined
Card Information
Type (Front): Instant
Type (Back): Instant
Mana Cost (Front): 3
Mana Cost (Back):
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 7
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Dissension (DIS)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 149
Oracle Text
Bound
Sacrifice a creature. Return up to X cards from your graveyard to your hand, where X is the number of colors that creature was. Exile this card.
Determined
Other spells you control can't be countered this turn. Draw a card.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- December 8, 2022
Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
Source: wotc - December 8, 2022
If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
Source: wotc - December 8, 2022
If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
Source: wotc - December 8, 2022
To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
Source: wotc - December 8, 2022
A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
Source: wotc - December 8, 2022
Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
Source: wotc - December 8, 2022
Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
Source: wotc - May 1, 2006
Spells you control may be countered by spells or abilities while Determined is on the stack, waiting to resolve.
Source: wotc - May 1, 2006
The cards in the graveyard that you return as part of Bound's effect aren't targeted. They're chosen when the spell resolves. The creature you sacrificed may be one of them.
Source: wotc - May 1, 2006
After Determined resolves, any spells or abilities that would counter a spell you control that turn will still resolve. They just won't counter that spell.
Source: wotc - May 1, 2006
The creature is sacrificed when Bound resolves. It's not an additional cost. It's not optional. If you can't sacrifice a creature or a colorless creature is sacrificed, no cards are returned.
Source: wotc
Price History

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