Good to throw in with a land destruction deck as a source of colorless damage
SolidSoldier
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It's not exactly giving your opponent a choice on which card he might be discarding; it's random at first, then he has to decide whether or not to keep it. I kinda like this card, especially in EDH when people are more likely to play useful, high-costing cards, and being devil's advocate about such things is not always a bad idea, it makes the game fun!
majinara
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Funny idea, bad result. Should either cost less to play and activate, or it should do both (discard and cause lifeloss at once).
Why would they print both when disrupting scepter existed at the same time? The scepter is superior in each and every way.
SkyknightXi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I always liked this more than Disrupting Scepter because of the random part, truth be told (how often did hand sizes dip below four back then, anyway? No real guarantee the Scepter would strike something important without a prior Mind Twist); the "risk" that they might pay life to keep a hold of the card was acceptable (and you knew they HAD that card, to boot). Granted we have things like Megrim nowadays to obliquely emulate both the discard and the life loss.
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Rather silly, since your opponent will always make the best choice.
Cloudchaser.Kestrel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I enjoy the flavor of this card. It speaks to white's austerity. "Do you really need that card? If your possessions suck the life out of you (as they often do in real life) are you willing to pay that price?" Nice embodiment of natural law, wizards!
. . . and then there are the sneaky things you can do with this card. Such as have a spirit Cairn on the field ;)
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Rather silly since your opp will always make the best choice."
@Radagast: Will he/she? Perhaps.. But what he/she can't do is knowingly make the RIGHT choice. 1 scenario, you're both at 10 life. Your opp chooses to pay 4 life because keeping that whatever card was the best choice, at that moment at least. What he/she did not know is that you've been sitting on 2 bolts for the right moment to come around, suddenly you Tap Tap, casting 2 bolts FTW! This was one of my favorite cards and almost always in the deck I was playing casually. My friends came to HATE this card and I grew to Love it!
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Why would they print both when disrupting scepter existed at the same time? The scepter is superior in each and every way.
. . . and then there are the sneaky things you can do with this card. Such as have a spirit Cairn on the field ;)
@Radagast: Will he/she? Perhaps.. But what he/she can't do is knowingly make the RIGHT choice. 1 scenario, you're both at 10 life. Your opp chooses to pay 4 life because keeping that whatever card was the best choice, at that moment at least. What he/she did not know is that you've been sitting on 2 bolts for the right moment to come around, suddenly you Tap Tap, casting 2 bolts FTW! This was one of my favorite cards and almost always in the deck I was playing casually. My friends came to HATE this card and I grew to Love it!