Spatial Binding 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
Pay 1 life: Until your next upkeep, target permanent can't phase out.
How it works : Spatial Binding
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If used on an Aura and the permanent enchanted by that Aura phases out, the Aura will not phase out. It will stay on the battlefield and then immediately be put into the graveyard since the permanent it was enchanting is phased out.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Repay in Kind + Spatial Binding
Each opponent loses the gameNear-infinite lifeloss for all players
- 1Activate Spatial Binding by paying 1 life.
- 2Repeat step 1 until you have 0 life.
- 3Resolve all Spatial Binding abilities.
- 4Cast Repay in Kind by paying
, causing each opponent's life total to become 0. - 5Each opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having 0 life.
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#2
Spatial Binding + Vizkopa Guildmage + Oketra's Last Mercy
Each opponent loses the game
- 1Activate Vizkopa Guildmage by paying
, causing each opponent to lose life whenever you gain life this turn. - 2Activate Spatial Binding by paying 1 life, preventing it from phasing out during your next upkeep.
- 3Repeat step 2 until you have one life.
- 4Cast Oketra's Last Mercy by paying , causing your life total to become forty.
- 5Vizkopa Guildmage triggers, causing each opponent to lose thirty-nine life.
- 6Each opponent loses the game due to having zero or less life.
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#3
Children of Korlis + Vizkopa Guildmage + Spatial Binding
Near-infinite lifeloss
- 1Activate Vizkopa Guildmage's second ability by paying , causing each opponent to lose life whenever you gain life this turn.
- 2Activate Spatial Binding by paying 1 life.
- 3Repeat step 2 until you have 1 life.
- 4Activate Children of Korils by sacrificing it, causing you to gain life equal to the amount of life you've lost this turn.
- 5Vizkopa Guildmage triggers, causing each opponent to lose life equal to the amount of life you gained.
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#4
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse + Vilis, Broker of Blood + Spatial Binding
Infinite card drawInfinite draw triggersNear-infinite lifegainNear-infinite lifegain triggers
- 1Activate Spatial Binding by paying 1 life.
- 2Vilis triggers, causing you to draw a card.
- 3Sheoldred's first ability triggers, causing you to gain 2 life.
- 4Repeat as desired.
- 5Resolve all Spatial Binding abilities.
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#5
Greven, Predator Captain + Spatial Binding
Target opponent loses the game
- 1Activate Spatial Binding by paying 1 life.
- 2Repeat step 1 until Greven has power 21 or greater due to its first ability.
- 3Deal combat damage to an opponent using Greven. The opponent loses the game due to being dealt 21 or more combat damage from your commander.
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#6
Rowan, Scion of War + Exsanguinate + Spatial Binding
Near-infinite lifegainNear-infinite lifeloss
- 1Activate Spatial Binding by paying life.
- 2Repeat step 1 as desired.
- 3Activate Rowan by tapping it, reducing the cost of all black and/or red spells you cast this turn.
- 4Cast Exsanguinate, choosing for X to equal the amount of life you've lost this turn, but paying a total of due to Rowan.
- 5Resolve Exsanguinate, causing each opponent to lose X life, and you to gain life equal to the life lost this way.
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#7
Rowan, Scion of War + Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate + Spatial Binding
Near-infinite lifegainNear-infinite lifeloss
- 1Activate Spatial Binding by paying life.
- 2Repeat step 1 as desired.
- 3Activate Rowan by tapping it, reducing the cost of all black and/or red spells you cast this turn.
- 4Cast a copy of Exsanguinate, choosing for X to equal the amount of life you've lost this turn, but paying a total of due to Rowan.
- 5Resolve Exsanguinate, causing each opponent to lose X life, and you to gain life equal to the life lost this way.
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Legal formats
legacyvintagecommanderoathbreakerduelpremodernpredhtlr
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