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Disciple of Phenax

Creature — Human Cleric2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Targeted discard usually pays for its precision by hitting exactly one card: Thoughtseize takes one, Mind Twist scales but bleaves the choosing to luck. This Cleric splits the difference by tying the size of the raid to a board state you have already committed to building. Devotion to black is the count: the more black pips you have already deployed, the deeper the reveal, and the more cards you get to sift through before naming one for the bin. The discipline in that design is that the effect is front-loaded onto an enters trigger with no flashback, no recursion, no second shot. You get one reveal at the moment the body lands, scaled to the board you have at that instant, and then it is a 1/3 that does very little. The 1/3 frame is not incidental either: it is a wall that survives early aggression and adds two more pips to whatever devotion engine you are running, so the creature feeds the very mechanic that powered its own trigger. What makes the card more than a discard spell stapled to a body is that the discard is the reward for going deep on a single color, a payoff that gets stronger precisely as your deck commits harder to black, rather than a flat tax you pay regardless of board state.

Disciple of Phenax (ths)
THS · #84common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to your devotion to black. You choose one of them. That player discards that card. (Each Black mana in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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