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A Premonition of Your Demise

Scheme

Most schemes are strictly-upside momentum tools that punish the whole table on a rotation, so the gamble baked into this one stands out: it draws the top two off your library face-up, and the burn it deals scales to the mana value of whatever nonland cards you flipped. That couples reward directly to variance. Hit two heavy bombs and you both refill your hand and dome an opponent for a small pile of damage; peel two lands and you draw them but the scheme does nothing offensive, having promised damage it cannot deliver. The archenemy has to accept that the same reveal fueling the card can also whiff it. The damage clause is the interesting part structurally: it lands on "any target," so it can go to a player or clear a blocker, but the amount is entirely out of your hands the moment you set it in motion. That is a deliberate choice for a multiplayer swing card meant to feel like a horror-movie beat, the premonition that may or may not come true, rather than a reliable engine you sequence around. It rewards a top-heavy library the way any reveal-based effect does, but it never lets you know in advance whether the vision was a threat or a bluff.

A Premonition of Your Demise (dsc)
DSC · #353common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When you set this scheme in motion, reveal the top two cards of your library and put them into your hand. When you reveal one or more nonland cards this way, this scheme deals damage equal to their total mana value to any target.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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