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Bond of InsightHow it works & interactions with other cards

By the ManaCount desk· 5 min read· War of the Spark· May 3, 2019
Carte Magic Bond of Insight

Bond of Insight is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

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Official card text

Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.

How it works : Bond of Insight

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

  1. #1· Wizards of the Coast

    Bond of Insight doesn’t target the cards to return to your hand. You choose which cards to return as it resolves. You can choose up to two cards in your graveyard at that time, including ones just put into your graveyard by Bond of Insight.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

  2. #2· Wizards of the Coast

    You can return two instant cards, two sorcery cards, one of each, just one instant or sorcery card, or none at all.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

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Popular combos

Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.

Storm-Kiln Artist
+Bond of Insight
+Increasing Vengeance
#1

Storm-Kiln Artist + Bond of Insight + Increasing Vengeance

Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite magecraft triggersInfinite mill
  1. 1Cast Bond of Insight by paying {3}{U}.
  2. 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  3. 3Holding priority, activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {R}.
  4. 4Cast Increasing Vengeance by paying {R}{R}, targeting Bond of Insight.
  5. 5Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  6. 6Resolve the copy of Increasing Vengeance, copying Bond of Insight.
  7. 7Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  8. 8Resolve the copy of Bond of Insight, causing each player to mill four cards and return Increasing Vengeance and any other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
Storm-Kiln Artist
+Bond of Insight
+Reverberate
#2

Storm-Kiln Artist + Bond of Insight + Reverberate

Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite magecraft triggersInfinite mill
  1. 1Cast Bond of Insight by paying {3}{U}.
  2. 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  3. 3Holding priority, activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {R}.
  4. 4Cast Reverberate by paying {R}{R}, targeting Bond of Insight.
  5. 5Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  6. 6Resolve the copy of Reverberate, copying Bond of Insight.
  7. 7Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  8. 8Resolve the copy of Bond of Insight, causing each player to mill four cards and return Reverberate and any other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
Storm-Kiln Artist
+Bond of Insight
+Twincast
#3

Storm-Kiln Artist + Bond of Insight + Twincast

Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite magecraft triggersInfinite mill
  1. 1Cast Bond of Insight by paying {3}{U}.
  2. 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  3. 3Holding priority, activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {U}.
  4. 4Cast Twincast by paying {U}{U}, targeting Bond of Insight.
  5. 5Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  6. 6Resolve the copy of Twincast, copying Bond of Insight.
  7. 7Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  8. 8Resolve the copy of Bond of Insight, causing each player to mill four cards and return Twincast and any other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
Bond of Insight
+Twincast
+Turnabout
#4

Bond of Insight + Twincast + Turnabout

Infinite millInfinite self-millInfinite storm countInfinite mana lands you control can produce
  1. 1Cast Bond of Insight by paying {3}{U}.
  2. 2Holding priority, cast Turnabout by paying {2}{U}{U}, untapping all lands you control.
  3. 3Activate all mana-producing lands you control by tapping them, adding at least {2}{U}{U}{U}{U}.
  4. 4Holding priority, cast Twincast by paying {U}{U}, copying Bond of Insight.
  5. 5Resolve the copy of Bond of Insight, causing each player to mill four cards, and returning Turnabout and Twincast from your graveyard to your hand.
  6. 6Repeat from step 2.
  7. 7If lands you control can tap to produce at least {3}{U}{U}{U}{U}, this combo nets infinite mana, which can be used to infinitely cast instants instead of continuing to copy Turnabout.
Storm-Kiln Artist
+Bond of Insight
+Fork
#5

Storm-Kiln Artist + Bond of Insight + Fork

Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite magecraft triggersInfinite mill
  1. 1Cast Bond of Insight by paying {3}{U}.
  2. 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  3. 3Holding priority, activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {R}.
  4. 4Cast Fork by paying {R}{R}, targeting Bond of Insight.
  5. 5Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  6. 6Resolve the copy of Fork, copying Bond of Insight.
  7. 7Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  8. 8Resolve the copy of Bond of Insight, causing each player to mill four cards and return Fork and any other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
Grandmother Goby
+Phyrexian Altar
+Bond of Insight
+Swarm Intelligence
#6

Grandmother Goby + Phyrexian Altar + Bond of Insight + Swarm Intelligence

Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
  1. 1Cast Bond of Insight by paying {3}{U}.
  2. 2Grandmother Goby and Swarm Intelligence trigger.
  3. 3Resolve the Grandmother Goby trigger, countering Bond of Inisght and creating four 1/1 Merfolk creature tokens.
  4. 4Resolve the Swarm Intelligence trigger, copying Bond of Insight.
  5. 5Resolve the copy of Bond of Insight, causing each player to mill four cards and then returning the original Bond of Insight and up to one other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
  6. 6Activate Phyrexian Altar four times by sacrificing the four Merfolk tokens, adding {3}{U}.
  7. 7Repeat.
Grandmother Goby
+Phyrexian Altar
+Bond of Insight
+The Mirari Conjecture
#7

Grandmother Goby + Phyrexian Altar + Bond of Insight + The Mirari Conjecture

Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
  1. 1Cast Bond of Insight by paying {3}{U}.
  2. 2Grandmother Goby and The Mirari Conjecture trigger.
  3. 3Resolve the Grandmother Goby trigger, countering Bond of Inisght and creating four 1/1 Merfolk creature tokens.
  4. 4Resolve the The Mirari Conjecture trigger, copying Bond of Insight.
  5. 5Resolve the copy of Bond of Insight, causing each player to mill four cards and then returning the original Bond of Insight and up to one other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
  6. 6Activate Phyrexian Altar four times by sacrificing the four Merfolk tokens, adding {3}{U}.
  7. 7Repeat.
Grandmother Goby
+Phyrexian Altar
+Bond of Insight
+Invasion of Arcavios // Invocation of the Founders
#8

Grandmother Goby + Phyrexian Altar + Bond of Insight + Invasion of Arcavios // Invocation of the Founders

Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
  1. 1Cast Bond of Insight by paying {3}{U}.
  2. 2Grandmother Goby and Invocation of the Founders trigger.
  3. 3Resolve the Grandmother Goby trigger, countering Bond of Inisght and creating four 1/1 Merfolk creature tokens.
  4. 4Resolve the Invocation of the Founders trigger, copying Bond of Insight.
  5. 5Resolve the copy of Bond of Insight, causing each player to mill four cards and then returning the original Bond of Insight and up to one other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
  6. 6Activate Phyrexian Altar four times by sacrificing the four Merfolk tokens, adding {3}{U}.
  7. 7Repeat.
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