Bigger on the Inside
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Enchant artifact or land
Enchanted permanent has "T: Target player adds two mana of any one color. The next spell they cast this turn has cascade." (When they cast their next spell, they exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card that costs less. They may cast it without paying its mana cost. They put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Combos with Bigger on the Inside
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Pili-Pala Infinite
- Infinite cascade with mana value equal to the next spell you cast
- Infinite colored mana
- Staff of Domination Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite cascade with mana value equal to the next spell you cast
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Farmstead Gleaner Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite cascade with mana value equal to the next spell you cast
- Freed from the Real Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite cascade with mana value equal to the next spell you cast
- Soliton Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite cascade with mana value equal to the next spell you cast
- Zirda, the Dawnwaker Retrofitter Foundry Infinite
- Infinite cascade with mana value equal to the next spell you cast
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Power Artifact Retrofitter Foundry Infinite
- Infinite cascade with mana value equal to the next spell you cast
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Blossoming Tortoise Deserted Temple Rings of Brighthearth Infinite
- Infinite cascade with mana value equal to the next spell you cast
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
11 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2023-10-13
When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled.
- 2023-10-13
You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
- 2023-10-13
If a spell has multiple instances of cascade, each one triggers separately.
- 2023-10-13
Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade.
- 2023-10-13
A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
- 2023-10-13
As the activated ability resolves, it creates a continuous effect that won't begin to apply until the targeted player starts casting a spell this turn. It applies to that spell and the timestamp of that effect is the time that the spell was put on the stack.
- 2023-10-13
The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves.
- 2023-10-13
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.
- 2023-10-13
If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally.
- 2023-10-13
If the card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- 2023-10-13
Some cards, such as modal double-faced cards or adventurer cards, can be cast as one of two different spells, each with different mana costs. If the card you're casting as the cascade ability resolves is one of those cards, you may choose to cast it as either of those spells that has a lower mana value than the spell with cascade.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Bigger on the Inside, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Thirteenth Doctor | 1 | 0 | — |
| Yasmin Khan | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Temur 1 deck
Every version of Bigger on the Inside
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $0.50
- Foil
- $4.28
- Foil
- $18.68
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bigger on the Inside — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
