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I wonder if there will ever be another Magic card whose artwork depicts a similar situation again.

That's quite a "power" she has, but only during your turn?

A legend from Legends that isn't completely terrible? Amazing...

Gwendlyn Di Corci is an older "popular" card among magic the gathering players--if anything for her flavor and art. The "seductress" of Magic the Gathering, one wonders what her art would be like if it was by Chippy...or Foglio. Ok, enough of those thoughts.

She is, in my opinion, one of the strongest "Grixis" generals. Crosis is pretty good, but he has to get in a hit to work. Garza Zol is way too expensive for my tastes. Mishra only works well in an artifact deck, Nicol Bolas is way too pricy...Thraximundar and Tetsuo are pretty good, but I still prefer Corci for her cheap cost and hand control abilities.

Forcing a random discard every turn is pretty cool. The fact she is blue makes it beyond cool. Imagine using her with Freed from the Real. Would you pay manau.gif to force a random discard? I certainly would.

She is a rogue, so she can be used with prowl, cloak and dagger and a few other tribal rogue cards. Its not the most amazing tribe, but it has more support than "Human" or "Fox". Although, in the format, Sygg is probably a better choice for a Rogue EDH deck unless you really want red.

But Corci's true strength lies in her stats. You heard me. 4 mana for a 3/5 is nothing to scoff at. Its no "Doran" or "Thoctar", but its kick in the nuts for anyone not paying close enough attention. Most legends with this kind of an ability would be 1/1 or 2/2 at best. Perhaps 2/3 like Rubinia. But making her a 3/5 ensures that when your opponent has no hand, she can still be used as either a fairy strong blocker, or equipped with a few enchantments/equipment and take a few chunks of life off your opponent. Plus you get to laugh when they try to kill her with a Lightning Bolt or Flame Javelin. Since she is an older and underused card, her stats aren't easily memorized and they are rather dull (i.e. seeing her stats takes some extra effort; a decent 10%-20% of players will assume she is just a 3/3 or weaker).

Also, she has one flavor text quote that I find rather amusing. Take a gander at
Handcuffs. Giggity!

One of the best of the original legends, a nice body with a decent cost, plus an awesome ability...am I in the right set??? The art tops it all off, one of the best cards from the set...

Good P/T, especially for its times, and a great ability.

This card rocks! Hot babe seducing and deceiving to get the upper hand! Def. like stated already, one of the best legends, and if you could find a way to untap her once or twice a turn you could mill your opponent quick! Puppet strings is a good way, but not the most mana efficient. Amazing card though, 4.5/5

@SolacePlease: If you were able to use her ability during your opponents turn this card would be ridiculous... if you ever got her working while an opponent had no cards in hand, you'd basically make it so that your opponent could only cast instants that they top decked... there are very few cards that can cause people to discard during their turns.

One of the (very) rare good legends from Legends.

sexy lady

I want her. I mean... this card.

@Szentekkel
you're paying the same mana to activate the effect 1 turn earlier, it's not at random, and someone's going to Shatter it for the same mana as terminate. I really place a lot more faith in a high toughness creature with black in its mana cost, than an artifact. That and she probably uses that scepter... to make people discard cards... yeah

you're turn is good enough hmm 2 cards in hand tap during upkeep forcing discard Oh, i'm sorry was that your Force of will?

you people are weird. there are tons of awesome cards in legends.

This card actually isnt all that useful in play. By the time she comes out, youve ordinarily emptied their hand already if youre playing with hymn to tourach, mind twist, etc. At that point your opponent is usually casting everything they get for fear of more discard. She's also bait for any and all removal. I prefer hypnotic specter. She doubles as a beater, though. Thats nice.

I love the old wording. "This POWER may only be used during your turn." Playable, in Grixis colors, and nice in EDH decks.

use with Handcuffs. your opponent will go o.O for about 5 straight minutes at the flavortext! xD

alternatively, just use with handcuffs. ;)

Use with Earthbind, a rubbish combo but the imagery will definately get noticed.

good but ill play scepter of fugue instead..ok i keep paying turn after turn but he cant be terminated
and i can stick with just black

@Snafinturtle right not random at the scepter but cmom you really need random discard at random after you got 3 colours of lands and 4 mana?
and is far more usual creature removal
i cant discuss much about any removal its just not fair since all can be removed
but you cant deny that mono black is far better at discard than RBU

I'd LOVE to make an EDH deck with her, but the $20 price point is a little mean. WHY!?

Random discard is fantastic, 3/5 is solid for 4CMC (all colored across 3 colors usually warrants more but this is Legends) and Rogue is a relevant creature type in two of those three colors.

I have her, though only an Italian one. Still, such a fantastic card. Such a fantastic girl. such... blllllll