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Lobotomy

Multiverse ID: 23170

Lobotomy

Comments (20)

Smoked_Peasant
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Favorite blue-black card of all time.
fyreowl
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Blue and Black at their finest.
DragonLord132
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0) (5 votes)
"Say goodbye to all your planeswalkers."

;)
Ava_Adore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
just brilliant
Deathtol
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
This is where boomerang and unsummon actually come in handy.
themoosegod
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
never mind i forgot rift sweeper shuffles the exiled card into your library so much for that idea
XTwistedsoulX
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Classic. Tempest art was scarier though.
God_Of_The_Smurfs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wheres your combo now, ***?
5/5
Clavat99
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
he he he Glasses of Urza. Selective strategy kill. Look at their hand and decide if you want to use lobotomy yet. My friend uses a deck with 4 Miraris Wakes in it. Those 4 cards make up his entire strategy and let him get out massive amounts of 4/4 angels. I was sitting there with glasses of urza in play, waiting for him to get one in his hand, the second he did, i through down lobotomy. Crushed his deck, no questions asked.
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Counterbore is the mono-blue version of this that functions as countermagic. This functions more like Duress in that you have to pluck it out of their hand in order for it to work.

Memoricide and Thought Hemorrhage escape this situationality by allowing you to name the card you want to murder, with Memoricide being more mono-black friendly and Thought Hemorrhage being more powerful in that it can also act as a souped up Blightning.
Lyoncet
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
As per Clavat 99's comment, since you're already running UB, may as well run Telepathy instead of Glasses of Urza. Works especially well in multiplayer, since that way you can pick out the deck whose key card seems the most threatening and disable it.
Paolino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Despite a bit worse than Thought Hemorrhage, it's still a great card!
bearmeister
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this and urza's glasses or gitaxian probe
AdOutAce
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The UB card.
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me...
O0oze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
i had a lobotomy
and now im not so nuts
they took away half my brain
now i eat cigarret butts...
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Quite the powerful combo killer. If the price was just one colorless more aggressive I'm sure it would see multiformat play.
homerlaw
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Slaughter Games seems to have be better
Aremath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
To those of you saying slaughter games and thought hemorrhage are better: there are advantages to either kind. With this card, you get the certainty that you can exile a card in their hand so it has immediate impact. With the other cards you get slightly more choice, and if they play a combo deck they can wreck them, but if they just don't happen to have the named card in hand they can be irrelevant. If you use other targeted discard, then you most likely know what's in their hand and the others become better (and you know when to cast this one), but Lobotomy is often more useful just because you know it'll get something.
Mainstay
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Unless you're relying on this to randomly maybe get a non-basic land, any deck running this would probably be better served with Memoricide. The latter is rare, but it costs about the same as this on the secondary market.

The need for the card to be in the target player's hand is just too big a drawback, at least in my experience.