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Corrupt Court Official

Creature — Human Advisor1 generic manaBlack mana

Attach a creature body to the discard effect that had, for years, lived on sorceries, and you change what the spell costs and what it threatens. Hand disruption that arrives on a stick is a two-part bargain: the enters-the-battlefield trigger strips a card the turn it lands, and the 1/1 lingers as a chump blocker, a sacrifice payload, or a target for recursion that lets you buy the discard again. The trade is fragility. A one-toughness body dies to almost anything, so the discard is the whole return on the investment unless you have a way to loop it. That is where this design earns its keep in a grinding black deck: bounce it, flicker it, reanimate it, and each return repeats the strip, turning a one-shot effect into an attrition engine that a raw discard spell cannot match. The trigger targets an opponent's random-selection-free discard (they choose what to pitch), so it is disruption without precision, better at bleeding a low hand dry than at hitting a specific answer. As a piece of the color's toolbox, it belongs to the tradition of cheap, expendable bodies that convert a discard effect into a permanent you can abuse rather than a card you cast once and forget.

Corrupt Court Official (ptk)
PTK · #71uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $17.71
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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