Despise

Targeted discard split the difference between two older traditions, and this is the half that turned out to matter most. Duress took noncreature cards, the spells that fair decks could not see coming. Coercion took anything at all but charged an extra mana for the privilege. This narrows in the opposite direction from Duress: creatures and planeswalkers only, the permanents that close games on their own, for a single black mana. That restriction is precisely what makes it useful against the decks Duress is blind to: the aggressive starts, the threat-dense midrange hands, the planeswalker a control deck is leaning on to stabilize. Revealing the hand is the second prize. It tells you what the opponent is holding and what they are not, which reshapes how you sequence your own threats and answers for the rest of the game. The limitation is timing and scope. As a sorcery, it operates only in your main phase, and it reaches only into the hand: a threat already resolved onto the battlefield is past its grasp entirely. The window is the gap between draw and deployment, and the card lives or dies by hitting it. Stripped from the hand before they can cast it, a threat is gone; arrive after they have committed it, and the most relevant card is already a permanent you can no longer touch. The design holds because it does one thing cleanly: it answers the permanents that win games, before they ever become permanents.