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Dark Deal

Sorcery2 generic manaBlack mana

The wheel as a weapon turned on the table. Every other refill-your-hand symmetric effect, from Windfall to Timetwister, hands cards to all comers as the price of the engine; the symmetry is the cost you pay for the draw. This one inverts that bargain. The discard is the point and the draw is the tax: everyone empties their hand, everyone refills a card short, and the player who triggers it is the one most likely to have set up an empty grip or a graveyard payoff first. It is a Mind Twist that hits everybody, including its caster, and only makes sense when you have already cashed out your hand into the board or the bin. That demand for sequencing (commit your cards, then strip the table down a card apiece) is the whole strategic gate: cast it with a full hand and you have just paid black mana to lose tempo alongside everyone else. To the reusable-resource crowd it reads as a discard outlet that doubles as a symmetric hand attack, a way to fuel madness, reanimation, or wheel-adjacent value while leaving opponents a card poorer for the turn. As a draw spell it is upside-down; as disruption it works by punishing a full grip rather than rewarding one, which is the opposite of how the wheel it descends from is meant to be cast.

Dark Deal (frf)
FRF · #66uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $3.38
Foil: $10.67
Oracle Text

Rules text

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.
Legalities

Format Status

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