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Fun opportunity to test out how well you can fool people. Yay for encouraging prevarication!

Except for the laughs it's a bad card.
If your opponent randomly guesses you draw a card 50% of the time, which is already investing 4 mana to draw a card every two turns, which is really bad. If your opponent knows what he's doing you might be around paying 6 mana to draw one card every three turns.

Uh, Cursed Scroll beats this.

good with Teferi's Puzzle Box or Mindmoil i would guess.

Probably strong, cheap card draw in EDH.

My poker face makes this card a reliable draw engine.

LOL

I don't think a lot of people are seeing the fun that can be had with this card. If I have a Counterspell in my hand, I can name it. If my opponent guesses no, I can either take the extra card or just refuse to show my hand and don't draw a card. He then assumes I don't have one and plays accordingly, allowing me to counter whatever it is he's been saving out of fear of having it countered. If he guesses yes, I can show it and make him play defensively out of fear of having his spell countered, or simply refuse to show it and see if he wants to call my bluff. Either way is a plus for me.

This card is designed to let you bluff your opponent into playing based on what he thinks is in your hand, and you can influence his thoughts on the matter. If you get the extra card, great, but if not, you still come out in good shape. Just keep in mind that the card says you may reveal your hand, not that you have to do so.

Liar's Pendulum is a fantastically fun card that really brings the "interaction" part of the game. You can use it every single turn and it is essentially a 50/50 shot whether or not you draw a card. If I get it out early I mention basic lands or high casting cards and later in the game it turns into about a 60/40 chance in my favor if I draw a card.

Not necessarily good, but always tons of fun. Used to play it in Niv EDH, but have since dismantled the deck. Creates good interaction, as said before, and interaction between players is why I enjoy Magic so much more than any other game.

the le reddit r/mtg army and its leejun loves this card! 5 stars if you agree!

The ultimate tabletop card.

Unless you have a REALLY good poker face, doesn't work if you don't have a hand.

Opposite of cathode01; I have a terrible poker face. I try to design/play my control decks in such a way that it's lose-lose for an opponent almost no matter what they do; making magic attractive because my social impulse to smirk when your doom is at hand is too much to contain.

Because of that; I can never probably use this card. I'd laugh, smirk, or give other tells.

I like having cards like this in the game; so it has more options; without people like me being terrible at the game because I can't hold it in.

As the murderous kitten pointed out, This is much more than a chancey semi expensive draw engine.

You use it to play mind games with people about the state of the game, which can have far reaching consequences way beyond card advantage, if you're clever about it. It's a psychology card, not a draw card.

This reminds me of something: If you hold a weighted string in your hand and you concentrate on the word "no", the string will spin in a circle, and if you concentrate on the word "yes", it will move in a line(or maybe it's the other way around). I've tried it, and it works.

You don't need to be able to keep a straight face to use this card well. Just have a huge grin on your face ALL THE TIME, whether you are lying or not.