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Blim, Comedic Genius

Legendary Creature — Imp2 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

Most "give your opponent something" cards make the gift a downside to be minimized: a Donate onto a Illusions of Grandeur, a Harmless Offering to unload a curse. Blim inverts the logic entirely by making the gift the whole strategy. The combat trigger hands away a permanent you control, and then the punishment scales to how much unowned junk each player is now holding. That single line rewrites the deckbuilding brief around a category of cards nobody plays for their own sake: things you want to own but never want to keep. Illusions of Grandeur, Grid Monitor, the whole family of Donate targets and cursed enchantments become finishers rather than liabilities, because the moment you push them across the table Blim converts their controller's disadvantage into life loss and forced discards. The 4/3 flying body is doing quiet structural work here: evasion is what makes the combat trigger reliable, and the trigger is the only reason the deck's pile of self-inflicted downsides has a payoff. The tension the design resolves is elegant in a way the joke framing obscures. Ordinarily the cost of a punisher effect is that it hurts you too; Blim's answer is to make everything you would never willingly keep into ammunition, so the cards that are supposed to cost you a game instead end it.

Blim, Comedic Genius (cmr)
CMR · #272rare
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Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever Blim deals combat damage to a player, that player gains control of target permanent you control. Then each player loses life and discards cards equal to the number of permanents they control but don't own.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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