Anti-discard is an interesting idea, but in reality, you'd probably be holding this card for 5 turns waiting to get hit with Hymn to Tourach, and then the random discard wouldn't even hit this card. Then you'd hit your opponenet for 1 instead of 5. Then you would lose and quit playing Magic altogether. Would you be better off? Who can say?
Guest57443454
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
This was the first card to punish a discard deck in this way, with a card that breaks the color wheel ten ways to Sunday...Guerrilla Tactics transformed this bad card to a great card...
The_Trendkill
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
A fun card, but not particularly useful. Still, a burn effect in blue is pretty neat.
2/5
themlsna
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Respect for being different.
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Not exactly Psionic Blast, but... blue burn! Interesting enough.
achilleselbow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This is a good example of how the "color pie" was not a straitjacket in the old days. Direct damage is now restricted to red, and life loss is restricted to black. All of which makes this card fairly interesting.
Pontiac
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Most decks back in the day ran Wheel of Fortune, black decks forced alot of discarding so this card was used at times, plus it took out Tims, Assassins and Ali from Cairo which all saw play then.
It had it's moments.
tavaritz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I used to have four of these and packed them sometimes in my WU-control decks. I got good laughs when I had all four in had and got Mind Twisted. I was hoarding them because I knew that my opponent had Mind Twist in his deck.
Not that powerful, but very different and more playable back in the day.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Hey, its also a nice sideboard option against one toughness creatures. Elves beware.
Alsebra
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
It's not that hard to justify the loss of life, actually...I see it as a psychic trap (since Blue is the color of the mind) that causes the blue mage to syphon off a portion of his opponent's lifeforce if it's encountered. It's kinda like the olden days of D&D when psionics were first introduced as attack modes and defense modes.
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2/5
It had it's moments.