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Barbed Shocker

Creature — Insect3 generic manaRed mana

The wheel attached to a beater. The discard-and-redraw effect is a familiar red trick, usually parked on a sorcery or an enchantment where it refuels both players at once; here it is bolted to a hasty trampler so the symmetry tilts in your favor. The wording is the whole reason it works: a hit forces a player to discard their entire hand, then draw that many cards. An opponent sitting on a fat grip of seven loses everything they were holding into the graveyard and gets seven fresh cards off the top. That is the punchline. Against a deck hoarding answers, connecting once empties the grip and hands them new cards rather than no cards, and because the replacements are random, the held-up counterspell and the carefully sandbagged removal end up in the bin instead of in hand. The body is built to land the trigger rather than to dominate the board: haste means it swings the moment it resolves, and trample is the piece that matters most against chump defenders, letting the 2/2 push a point past a lone blocker so the player still takes damage and eats the wheel. The cost of all this is the 2/2 frame itself, which gets outclassed in combat and only connects when the path is open enough to land even a single point. This is a disruption piece wearing a creature's clothes, an aggressive answer to durdling that punishes a full hand instead of an empty one.

Barbed Shocker (tsp)
TSP · #144uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.63
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample, haste Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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