Bite Down on Crime

three generic mana one green mana Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. This spell costs two generic mana less to cast if evidence was collected. (To collect evidence 6, exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)

Target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.

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Bite Down on Crime rulings

2024-02-02
If either target is an illegal target as Bite Down on Crime tries to resolve, the creature you control won't deal damage.
2024-02-02
If you can't exile enough cards to meet or exceed the required mana value, you can't choose to collect evidence at all.
2024-02-02
Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard to stop you from collecting evidence.

Bite Down on Crime keyword rules

Collect evidence Rule 701.57

To “collect evidence N” means to exile any number of cards from your graveyard with total mana value N or greater.

If a player is given the choice to collect evidence but is unable to exile cards with total mana value N or greater from their graveyard (usually because there aren’t enough cards to do so) they can’t choose to collect evidence.

A spell that has an ability that allows a player to collect evidence as an additional cost to cast it may have another ability that refers to whether evidence was collected. These abilities are linked. See rule , “Linked Abilities.”