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Elderfang Disciple

Creature — Elf Cleric1 generic manaBlack mana

Discard has always been priced as spell or body, rarely both, and the friction is symmetry: a hand-attack spell does its work and is gone, while a creature that strips a card leaves something on the board to justify the tempo you spent. The trick this design uses is stapling the discard to an enter trigger on a cheap, expendable Elf Cleric, which turns a one-shot effect into a recurring one for anything that flickers, reanimates, or otherwise reuses creatures entering play. A 1/1 for two is negligible on rate, but the body is the point in the other direction too: it feeds sacrifice engines, elf and cleric synergies, and any deck that would rather cash the creature for value than attack with it. Compared to a straight discard spell like Duress, this trades selection for permanence and reusability; you do not choose what leaves the opponent's hand, but you keep a permanent that can be looped. That reusability is the whole argument. On its own it is a modest tempo play; inside an engine that keeps returning it, the discard compounds into a hand-lock that no single sorcery can replicate.

Elderfang Disciple (j25)
J25 · #432common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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